Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of rosettes

Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of rosettes

Description:

Male head with frontlet decorated with rosettes.


Overall: 7 x 5 x 6 in. (17.8 x 12.7 x 15.2 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

575 - 501 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. LXXXI.533, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1302, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 96, p. 101, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2650