Limestone head of beardless male votary

Limestone head of beardless male votary

Description:

Figure wearing wreath.


Overall: 10 1/4 x 6 3/4 x 9 in. (26 x 17.1 x 22.9 cm)

Period:

Hellenistic

Date:

199 - 100 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. CXL.1044, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1343, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Connelly, Joan. 1988. Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. no. 37, pp. 85, 91, 112, figs. 127-28, Nicosia, Cyprus: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 134, p. 125, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2799