Limestone bouquet of flowers
Description: | The fragment is broken from a large figural sculpture, perhaps of a female figure. The flowers are of the lotus and perhaps of laurel. H.: 5 7/8 x 3 1/2 x 3 3/8 in. (14.9 x 8.9 x 8.6 cm) |
Period: | Classical |
Date: | 499 - 450 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.101, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1158, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 283, p. 218, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.2606 |