Classical
Limestone votive relief with worship and banquet scenes
Golgoi in Cyprus was the site of an important sanctuary to Apollo. This relief, which shows the god seated before an altar holding a lyre and phiale, may have hung on a wall within the temple precinct. WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 12 1/2 × 19 7/8 × 3/16 in., 10 lb. (31.8 × 50.5 × 0.5 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Relief
- Motif
- Human figure
- Date
- 399 - 300 BC
- Place of production
- probablyCyprus
- Findspot
- Golgoi
Accession No.
74.51.2338
Collection
Provenance
- Said to be from the sanctuary of Ayios Photios, Golgoi, Cyprus
References
- Doell, Johannes. 1873. Die Sammlung Cesnola. no. 766, p. 49, pl. XI.5, St. Petersburg: L’Académie Impérial des Sciences.Hall, Isaac H. 1874. "Cypriote Inscriptions of the Di Cesnola Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Journal of the American Oriental Society, 10: no. 26, p. 214, pl. VI.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. 149, 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. LXXXV.533, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. pl. CXXXIII.2, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1870, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Masson, Olivier. 1961. Les Inscriptions Chypriotes Syllabiques: Recueil Critique et Commenté. no. 268, pp. 280, 287-88, Paris: E. de Boccard.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 352, pp. 221-2, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos. 2000. "A Cypriot Banquet Scene." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique. Supplément., 38: pp. 251-57, fig. 1.Karageorghis, Vassos. 2006. Aspects of Everyday Life in Cyprus: Iconographic Representations. no. 210, pp. 212-3, Nicosia: Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 448, pp. 320-21, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Counts, Derek B. 2014. "Myth into Art: Foreign Impulses and Local Reponses in Archaic Cypriot Sanctuaries." The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, Arthur Bernard Knapp and Peter van Dommelen, eds. p. 294, fig. 16.9, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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