Limestone plinth with the feet of a female statuette (?)

Limestone plinth with the feet of a female statuette (?)

Description:

Two sculpted toes stand on the proper left edge of a fragmentary plinth with a Cypro-Syllabic inscription.


Overall: 5 1/8 x 8 7/8 x 3 in. (13 x 22.5 x 7.6 cm)

Period:

Hellenistic

Date:

330 - 200 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

Said to be from the sanctuary of Ayios Photios, Golgoi, Cyprus

References:

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. CXXXII.1, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1887, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Masson, Olivier. 1961. Les Inscriptions Chypriotes Syllabiques: Recueil Critique et Commenté. no. 276, pl. XLV.3, Paris: E. de Boccard.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 204, p. 204, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2303