Limestone head of a beardless male with a diadem - image 1

Archaic II

Limestone head of a beardless male with a diadem

Head wearing a frontlet with rosettes. Overall: 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 x 8 in. (23.5 x 18.1 x 20.3 cm)

Date

575 - 526 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2859

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. XIX.29, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1252, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 36, p. 55, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.