Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of rosettes - image 1

Archaic II

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

Male head with frontlet decorated with rosettes. Overall: 7 x 5 x 6 in. (17.8 x 12.7 x 15.2 cm)

Date

575 - 501 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2650

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.