
Archaic II
Limestone head of a beardless male wearing a conical helmet
Votary with Egyptian features, wearing Assyrian cap. Overall: 10 × 75 3/8 × 7 3/4 in. (25.4 × 191.5 × 19.7 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Stone sculpture
- Period
- Iron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 599 - 500 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Golgoi
Collection
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.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.2492, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 1274
Photographs in the Archive
2 older photographs of this object, matched by its numbers or by comparing the photographs. Each links to its record in the Archive.
- Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn0368. Public domain (CC0).
- Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn0367. Public domain (CC0).
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