Female limestone head - image 1

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)

Date

500 - 480 BC

Accession No.

41.160.416

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.