Limestone head of a wreathed youth - image 1

Classical

Limestone head of a wreathed youth

Head of a youth wearing a wreath with an oval-shaped, smiling face, a long pointed nose, bulging eyeballs with thick eyelids, and low-set eyebrows. Overall: 5 1/2 x 3 3/8 x 4 3/4 in. (14 x 8.6 x 12.1 cm)

Date

499 - 400 BC

Accession No.

41.160.414

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. CX.736, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 119, pp. 116-17, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.