Fragment of an male limestone votary with an Egyptianizing kilt

Fragment of an male limestone votary with an Egyptianizing kilt

Description:

Fragment of large statue, showing a zone of fantastic animals.


Overall: 7 3/4 x 12 1/2 x 7 in. (19.7 x 31.8 x 17.8 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 550 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. XXVII.80, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1370, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Faegersten, Fanni. 2003. The Egyptianizing Male Limestone Statuary from Cyprus: a study of a cross-cultural eastern Mediterranean votive type. no. 33, p. 348, pls. 8.4, 30, Lund, Sweden: The Historical Museum at Lund University.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 43, pp. 59, 62, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2676