Limestone male head
Description: | While the foliate wreath identifies the figure as a Cypriot votary, the features of the face—the mustache, the bead, the crisp lines of the eyebrows and eyelids—are clearly dependent on Archaic Greek marble models. Overall: 15 x 9 x 11 in. (38.1 x 22.9 x 27.9 cm) |
Period: | Archaic II |
Date: | 550 - 500 BC |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Provenance: | From Karpassia |
References: | Doell, Johannes. 1873. Die Sammlung Cesnola. no. 344, p. 46, pl. IX.9, St. Petersburg: L’Académie Impérial des Sciences.Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1877. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations During Ten Years' Residence in That Island. p. 141, London: John Murray.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.540, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1281, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 185, p. 120, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 76, pp. 45, 85, 87, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.2836 |