Roman
Limestone head of beardless male votary
This expressive face, already marked by age, is one of the finest adaptations in Cypriot limestone sculpture of the late Republican portrait style. WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 11 7/16 × 9 7/16 × 6 1/4 in., 21 lb. (29.1 × 23.9 × 15.9 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Stone sculpture
- Date
- 75 - 25 BC
- Place of production
- probablyCyprus
- Findspot
- Golgoi
Accession No.
74.51.2787
Collection
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. CXXXIX.1034, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1323, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Connelly, Joan. 1988. Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. no. 49, pp. 12, 83-85, 98, 116, figs.153-4,157-8, Nicosia, Cyprus: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 410, p. 253, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 303, pp. 262, 466, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 140, pp. 128-29, 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] pp. 86, 139, Graz: Unipress graz.
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