Limestone horse with a rider - image 1

Archaic II

Limestone horse with a rider

This rider is one of the earliest representations of a horseman in Cypriot sculpture. Overall: 7 1/2 x 2 7/8 x 12 in. (19.1 x 7.3 x 30.5 cm)

Date

560 - 525 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2681

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. LXXX.512, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1014, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Crouwel, Joost H. and Veronica Tatton-Brown. 1988. "Ridden Horses in Iron Age Cyprus." Report of the Department of Antiquities Cyprus (RDAC), : pl. XXV.2.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 236, p. 189, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.