Limestone hand holding a pomegranate

Limestone hand holding a pomegranate

Description:

The small right hand holds a pomegranate painted red.


Overall: 3 1/2 x 1 7/8 x 2 7/8 in. (8.9 x 4.8 x 7.3 cm)

Period:

Bronze Age

Date:

3900 BC - 100 AD

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. XXIX.171, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1170, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 297, p. 225, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2714