Limestone statuette of Herakles as an archer

Limestone statuette of Herakles as an archer

Description:

Figure holding bow.


Overall: 20 3/4 x 7 in. (52.7 x 17.8 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

560 - 525 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. LXXXVII.580, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1092, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Sophocleous, Sophocles. 1985. ""Atlas des représentations chypro-archaiques des divinités." Master's Diss.." Master's Diss. no. 1, p. 30, pl. V.2. Paul Aströms Förlag.Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1990. Vol. 5: Herakles-Kenchrias. "Herakles (Cypri)," p. 193, no. 1, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1997. Vol. 8: Thespiades-Zodiacus. "Melqart," p. 833, no. 39, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 300, pp. 226-27, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2661