Limestone funerary stele with volutes and a Hathor head, Classical Cypriot statue — Limestone funerary stele with volutes and a Hathor head, Classical Cypriot, c. 420–401 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.2494.Open Access by the MET

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Limestone funerary stele with volutes and a Hathor head

Tombstone with Cypriot capital, head of Hathor, volutes, and lotus flowers. Overall: 23 3/4 x 19 x 4 1/2 in. (60.3 x 48.3 x 11.4 cm)

Classification

Object type: Relief
Motif: Lotus
Material: StoneLimestone
Period: Iron AgeCypro-Classical
Date: 420 - 401 BC
Place of production: probablyCyprus
Findspot: Golgoi

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Accession No.

74.51.2494

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

From the necropolis of Golgoi

References

Doell, Johannes. 1873. Die Sammlung Cesnola. no. 828, p. 56, pl. XIII.21, St. Petersburg: L’Académie Impérial des Sciences.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. XVIII.26, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1415, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Mercklin, Eugen von. 1962. Antike Figuralkapitelle. no. 62, p. 21, fig. 85, Berlin: W. de Gruyter & Co.Sophocleous, Sophocles. 1985. ""Atlas des représentations chypro-archaiques des divinités." Master's Diss.." Master's Diss. no. 4, pp. 132-33. Paul Aströms Förlag.Hermary, Antoine. 1985. "Un nouveau chapiteau hathorique trouvé à Amathonte." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 109(2): pp. 676, 681.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 474, pp. 340-41, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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