Limestone head of beardless male votary with wreath of leaves - image 1

Hellenistic

Limestone head of beardless male votary with wreath of leaves

Figure with double wreath of leaves, suggesting the style of Skopas. WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 12 × 7 1/2 × 10 in., 23 lb. (30.5 × 19.1 × 25.4 cm, 10.4 kg)

Date

150 - 100 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2805

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. CXXXIX.1035, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1316, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Connelly, Joan. 1988. Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. no. 36, pp. 12, 82, 85, 91, 102-3, 112, figs. 125-26, Nicosia, Cyprus: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 406, pp. 250-1, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 131, p. 123, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Scherrer, Peter, Gabriele Koiner, and Anja Ulbrich. 2013. Hellenistisches Zypern [Hellenistic Cyprus. Proceedings of the International Conference, Department of Archaeology, University of Graz, 14 October 2010] p. 137, n. 134, Graz: Unipress graz.