Archaic II
Limestone female head
The treatment of the face of this exceptionally attractive work owes much to the sculpture of eastern Greece. Purely Cypriot, however, are her accoutrements: ear caps, loop earrings, the choker around her neck, and the longer necklaces falling on her chest. Overall: 11 x 10 1/4 x 8 in. (27.9 x 26 x 20.3 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Stone sculpture
- Period
- Iron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 550 - 450 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Golgoi
Accession No.
74.51.2820
Collection
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. LXXXII.537, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1295, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1936[1934]. A Guide to the Collections, Part 1: Ancient and Oriental Art, 2nd edn. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1949. Archaic Greek Art Against Its Historical Background; A Survey. p. 175, fig. 267, New York: Oxford University Press.Hermary, Antoine. 1985. "Un nouveau chapiteau hathorique trouvé à Amathonte." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 109(2): p. 690.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 342, p. 212, 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. 22-3, fig. 18.Karageorghis, Jacqueline. 2005. Kypris: the Aphrodite of Cyprus: Ancient Sources and Archaeological Evidence. pp. 165-66, fig. 165, Nicosia, Cyprus: Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis.Karageorghis, Jacqueline. 2012. "The genesis of Aphrodite." Cipro, Isola di Afrodite, Louis Godart, ed. pp. 94-95, fig. 13, Rome.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 194, pp. 163-64, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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