Limestone statuette of a female lyre player

Limestone statuette of a female lyre player

Description:

Female figure wearing elaborate necklace.


Overall: 14 x 5 7/8 x 3 in. (35.6 x 14.9 x 7.6 cm)

Period:

Classical

Date:

420 - 380 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Idalion

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. LXVII.441, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1085, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 233, p. 187, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2641