Limestone statuette of a boy holding a pyxis

Limestone statuette of a boy holding a pyxis

Description:

Figure wearing flat cap and holding incense box.


Overall: 25 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (64.8 x 21.6 x 8.9 cm)

Period:

Hellenistic

Date:

330 - 30 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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. CXXXVII.1024, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1193, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Sjöqvist, Erik. 1955. "A Cypriote Temple Attendant." American Journal of Archaeology, 59(1): no. 2, p. 47.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 160, pp. 142-43, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2713