Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Collector

Alexander Prokhorov

d. 1929 · Russia

Russian collector. Lived at Schlüsselburg.

Life and work

  1. 1929
    A limestone statuette of a mother with child entered the Hermitage from his collection, within the state policy of accumulating cultural objects in state museums; other formerly private collections are described the same way.

    LeningradKarageorghis & Bukina 2005

Objects

  • Statuette of a mother with child, limestone, last third of 6th to early 5th century BC, height 17 cm

    State Hermitage Museum A 995 (catalogue H 42)1929Karageorghis & Bukina 2005

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis, O. Bukina (2005). Ancient Cypriote Art in Russian Museums. A. G. Leventis Foundation.