Limestone altar
Description: | On the front, Herakles fighting the Nemean lion. On the adjacent sides, two female votaries. WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 10 1/8 × 7 × 7 in., 13.5 lb. (25.7 × 17.8 × 17.8 cm, 6.1 kg) |
Period: | Classical |
Date: | 425 - 400 BC |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Provenance: | Sanctuary of Golgoi-Ayios Photios |
References: | Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1885. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 1. pl. XXVII.87, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1109, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Tatton-Brown, Veronica. 1984. "Sculptors at Golgoi." Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus (RDAC) p. 173, n. 39.Sophocleous, Sophocles. 1985. ""Atlas des représentations chypro-archaiques des divinités." Master's Diss.." Master's Diss. no. 2, pp. 40-1, pl. XLII.4. Paul Aströms Förlag.Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1990. Vol. 5: Herakles-Kenchrias. "Herakles (Cypri)," p. 195, no. 25, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 345, p. 215, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 446, pp. 318-19, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.2633 |