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Young man with laurel wreath, Archaic II Cypriot statue
Young man with laurel wreath, Archaic II Cypriot, c. 550–500 BC. Vienna Museum, Antikensammlung, V 1187.© Kunsthistorisches Museum

Archaic II

Young man with laurel wreath

Young man with laurel wreath The head of a young man, whose oval face with the low forehead, the almond-shaped, flat eyes, the pointed nose, the closed, smiling mouth and the protruding chin are the characteristic features of the Cyprical-Archic style of the beginning of the 5th centuryv.BC has, comes from a life -size votive statue.A series of small, schematic hunchback frames the face, a laurel wreath above;On the top of the head, the hairstyle is formed by radial strands out of the vertebrae, which are summarized in a roll in the neck.Bernhard-Walcher and others, the Cypricer Antique Collection in the KHM.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna 1999 (V. Karageghis) H. 23 cm

Classification

Object type
Stone sculpture
Material
probablyStoneLimestone
Period
Iron AgeCypro-Archaic
Date
550 - 500 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

Vienna Museum

Provenance

  • Cesnola, Luigi Palma di, Konsul, Larnaka;1869 purchase

Identifiers

Accession no.
Antikensammlung, V 1187, Vienna Museum

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