Limestone temple boy
Description: | He sits on a roughly elliptical plinth. His left hand holds a fruit or ball. His right arm stretches down to hold a bird by its wings near his left foot. He wears two strings of seals with oblong pendants in the middle. He also wears earrings. He has an ovoid face, short hair and a flat head at the top. WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 15 1/4 × 12 × 8 in., 20 lb. (38.7 × 30.5 × 20.3 cm, 9.1 kg) |
Period: | Classical |
Date: | 450 - 400 BC |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Provenance: | From Cyprus“Found in the ruins of a temple at Curium” |
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. CXXXII.984, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1221, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Beer, Cecilia. 1994. Temple-Boys: A Study of Cypriote Votive Sculpture, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. 113. pp. 55-62, pl. 61a-d, Jonsered: Paul Aströms Förlag.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 362, p. 230, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Lightfoot, Christopher S. 2000. "The New Cypriot Galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Minerva, 11(3): pp. 21-2, fig. 16.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 258, p. 204, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.2764 |