Archaic II
Female limestone head
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)
Classification
- Object type
- Stone sculpture
- Period
- Iron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 500 - 480 BC
- Place of production
- probablyCyprus
- Findspot
- Idalion
Collection
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.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 41.160.416, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Hermary 2013, no. 197
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