Classical
Seated limestone kourotrophos
Seated "nursing mother" with child seated upright. Overall: H.:5 1/2 x W.:3 1/2 x D.:1 3/4 in. (14 x 8.9 x 4.4 cm)
Date
400 - 301 BC
Accession No.
74.51.2559
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. LVII.395, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1129, p. 180, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Myres, John L. 1940-1945. "Excavations in Cyprus, 1913." Annual of the British School at Athens, 41: p. 66.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 220, p. 179, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.