Limestone statuette of a temple boy, Classical Cypriot — Limestone statuette of a temple boy, Classical Cypriot, c. 399–300 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.2754.Open Access by the MET

Classical

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Seated figure with chain of pendants, holding a hare. H. 15 9/16 inch (39.50 cm.)

Classification

Object type: Stone sculpture
Motif: Human figure
Material: StoneLimestone
Period: Hellenistic and RomanHellenistic
Date: 399 - 300 BC
Place of production: Cyprus
Findspot: Kourion

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Accession No.

74.51.2754

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

From Cyprus“Found in the ruins of a temple at Curium”

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. CXXXI.968, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1215, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Beer, Cecilia. 1994. Temple-Boys: A Study of Cypriote Votive Sculpture, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. 113. pp. 55-62, pl. 176a-b, Jonsered: Paul Aströms Förlag.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 272, p. 211, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Photographs in the Archive

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Csn3818Hellenistic and Roman sculpture, Metropolitan Museum V

Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn3818. Public domain (CC0).

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