Female limestone head

Female limestone head

Description:

The face has a smiling expression, protruding eyes, and unarticulated ears, each decorated with a scallop-shaped piece of jewelry.


Overall: 2 1/4 × 1 5/8 × 1 7/8 in. (5.7 × 4.1 × 4.8 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

500 - 480 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

“From the ruins at Idalium”

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. CIX.732, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 197, p. 165, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

41.160.416