Limestone statuette of a male votary with Cypriot shorts and a diadem

Limestone statuette of a male votary with Cypriot shorts and a diadem

Description:

Votary with Cypriot loin-cloth on which there is a rosette.


Overall: 5 x 5 x 3 in. (12.7 x 12.7 x 7.6 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

575 - 540 BC

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.385, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1046b, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 35, pp. 54-5, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Höckmann, Ursula. 2017. "Kunsthandwerkliche Motive unterschiedlicher Provenienz in der zyprisch-griechischen Kleinplastik der 1. Hälfte des 6. Jhs. v. Chr.." Istanbuler Mitteilungen, 67: p. 33.

Accession Number:

74.51.2568