Archaic II
Limestone footstool
The front is decorated with the relief of a lion attacking a bull—a motif with a long tradition in the Levant as well as Greece. The animals are flanked by large rosettes over which hang lotus blossoms. Stone footstools of this type were found next to a large stone sarcophagus in one of the built "royal" tombs at Tamassos, a city-kingdom not far from Golgoi. WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 8 × 23 1/4 × 9 in., 60 lb. (20.3 × 59.1 × 22.9 cm, 27.2 kg)
Date
500 - 450 BC
Accession No.
74.51.2678
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
- From “the ruins of Golgoi” (Cesnola 1885), not the sanctuary of Golgoi-Ayios Photios (Cesnola 1877)
References
- Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1877. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations During Ten Years' Residence in That Island. p. 159, London: John Murray.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. CXXII.906, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1373, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Masson, Olivier. 1968. "Kypriaka IV-VIII." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 92(2): p.382, fig. 6.Tatton-Brown, Veronica. 1984. "Sculptors at Golgoi." Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus (RDAC) p. 172, n. 22b, pl. XXXIII:6.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 333, p. 207, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 444, pp. 317-18, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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