Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Description:

Crouching Temple Boy with dedication to Apollo.


Overall: 4 1/2 x 4 x 2 1/8 in. (11.4 x 10.2 x 5.4 cm)

Period:

Classical

Date:

425 - 300 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

Said to be from near the temple of Apollo Hylates (Ayia Anna) at Kourion, Cyprus

References:

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. pl. CXXVII, 7, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1849, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Mitford, Terence Bruce. 1971. The Inscriptions of Kourion. no. 20, pp. 51-52, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.Beer, Cecilia. 1994. Temple-Boys: A Study of Cypriote Votive Sculpture, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. 113. pp. 55-62, pl. 84c, Jonsered: Paul Aströms Förlag.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 256, p. 203, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karnava, Artemis and Massimo Perna. 2020. Inscriptiones Graecae, Inscriptiones Cypri, XV 1, 1. no. 107, p. 44, Berlin/ Boston: Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Accession Number:

74.51.2309