Hellenistic
Limestone head of a bearded male votary
Figure wearing wreath. Overall: 11 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (27.9 x 19.1 x 19.1 cm)
Date
330 - 200 BC
Accession No.
74.51.2788
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
- “From a ruin at Pyla”
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. CV.684, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1315, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Connelly, Joan. 1988. Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. no. 33, pp. 80, 84, 89, 106, 112, figs 119-20, Nicosia, Cyprus: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 92, p. 98, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.