Archaic II
Limestone statuette of Herakles as an archer
With bundle of arrows in each hand. Overall: 8 3/4 x 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (22.2 x 10.8 x 7 cm)
Date
560 - 525 BC
Accession No.
74.51.2654
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. LXXXVII.576, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1093, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Sophocleous, Sophocles. 1985. ""Atlas des représentations chypro-archaiques des divinités." Master's Diss.." Master's Diss. p. 42, pl. XI.4. Paul Aströms Förlag.Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1990. Vol. 5: Herakles-Kenchrias. "Herakles (Cypri)," p. 193, nos. 2, 4, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1997. Vol. 8: Thespiades-Zodiacus. "Melqart," p. 833, no. 39, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 301, pp. 227-28, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.