Limestone head of beardless male votary

Limestone head of beardless male votary

Description:

Figure with wreath of leaves.


Overall: 8 1/2 x 7 x 4 3/4 in. (21.6 x 17.8 x 12.1 cm)

Period:

Hellenistic

Date:

199 - 100 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. CXL.1048, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1317, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Connelly, Joan. 1988. Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. no. 38, pp. 85, 92, 112, figs. 129-30, Nicosia, Cyprus: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 135, p. 126, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Scherrer, Peter, Gabriele Koiner, and Anja Ulbrich. 2013. Hellenistisches Zypern [Hellenistic Cyprus. Proceedings of the International Conference, Department of Archaeology, University of Graz, 14 October 2010] p. 132, n. 107, Graz: Unipress graz.

Accession Number:

74.51.2800