Seated limestone kourotrophos
Description: | Statue of "nursing mother" seated on a high-backed throne. WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 7 3/8 × 4 15/16 × 1 7/8 in., 1.5 lb. (18.7 × 12.5 × 4.8 cm) |
Period: | Archaic II |
Date: | 550 - 501 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. XXXVIII.251, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1125, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Myres, John L. 1940-1945. "Excavations in Cyprus, 1913." Annual of the British School at Athens, 41: p. 66.Karageorghis, Jacqueline. 1977. La grande déesse de Chypre et son culte à travers l'iconographie de l'époque néolithique au VIème s.a.C.. p. 217, Lyon: Maison de l'Orient.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 213, p. 176, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.2528 |