Limestone votive pine cone

Limestone votive pine cone

Description:

The pinecone ends in a square tenon, for insertion into a funerary cippus. The scales are represented by a lozenge motif.


Overall: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm) Diam.: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm)

Period:

Hellenistic

Date:

299 - 30 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Kition or Idalion

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.CXXI.885, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1229, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 508, p. 383, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2780