Limestone statuette of a boy holding a duck

Limestone statuette of a boy holding a duck

Description:

Figure holding apple and dove.


Overall: 21 1/2 x 8 x 4 1/2 in. (54.6 x 20.3 x 11.4 cm)

Period:

Hellenistic

Date:

330 - 200 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. CXXXIV.995, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1198, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 156, p. 140, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2775