Bronze statuette of a bird of prey

Bronze statuette of a bird of prey

Description:

This fragment once may have been the ornament of a tripod or a vase handle.


H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm) L. 5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm)

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

799 - 600 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus

References:

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1878. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations During Ten Years' Residence in That Island. pl. XXX, New York: Harper & Brothers.Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. pl. LXV, 4, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4765, p. 487, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 4, p. 7, New York: Gilliss Press.Reinach, Salomon. 1924. Répertoire de la Statuaire Greque et Romaine, Tome V, Vol. 1. no. 7, p. 458, Paris: E. Leroux.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 32, n. 26, 181, pl. 21d, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 287, pp. 175-6, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Gehring, Ulrich. 2004. Die Greifenprotomen aus dem Heraion von Samos. p. 140, n. 569, Bonn: Habelt.

Accession Number:

74.51.5571