Limestone head of a snake - image 1

Hellenistic

Limestone head of a snake

The head of a bearded snake held something in its open and furrowed mouth. Overall: H.:4 1/8 x W.:1 9/16 x D.:3 1/2 in. (10.5 x 4 x 8.9 cm)

Date

310 - 30 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2578

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.77, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1112, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1990. Vol. 5: Herakles-Kenchrias. "Herakles (Cypri)," p. 195, no. 29, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 310, pp. 234-35, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.