Limestone head of a beardless male wearing a conical helmet

Limestone head of a beardless male wearing a conical helmet

Description:

Votary with Egyptian features, wearing Assyrian cap.


Overall: 10 × 75 3/8 × 7 3/4 in. (25.4 × 191.5 × 19.7 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

599 - 500 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. LVI.359, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1274, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 8, p. 34, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2492