Limestone statue of a youth holding a pyxis
Description: | The boy wears a chiton under a himation that is draped over the left shoulder and covers the lower part of the body from the hips down as well as the left forearm from which a panel of fabric falls to the calf. At the level of the hip, the left hand holds a circular box (pyxis), while the right hand lifts the cover. Overall: 27 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (70.5 x 19.1 x 12.1 cm) |
Period: | Hellenistic |
Date: | 299 - 30 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. CXXXVII, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1201, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Connelly, Joan. 1988. Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. p. 3, fig. 7, Nicosia, Cyprus: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 166, p. 146, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.2772 |