Limestone statuette of a seated temple boy on an inscribed base - image 1

Classical

Limestone statuette of a seated temple boy on an inscribed base

Crouching Temple Boy with Cypro-Syllabic dedication to Apollo. H. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)

Date

450 - 400 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2311

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • Said to be from near the temple of Apollo Hylates (Ayia Anna) at Kourion, Cyprus

References

  • Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. pl. CXXVII, 2-4, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1848, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Masson, Olivier. 1961. Les Inscriptions Chypriotes Syllabiques: Recueil Critique et Commenté. nos. 184, 398, Paris: E. de Boccard.Mitford, Terence Bruce. 1971. The Inscriptions of Kourion. no. 19, pp. 49-51, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.Beer, Cecilia. 1994. Temple-Boys: A Study of Cypriote Votive Sculpture, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. 113. no. 190, pp. 55-62, pl. 84b, Jonsered: Paul Aströms Förlag.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 254, pp. 202-3, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karnava, Artemis and Massimo Perna. 2020. Inscriptiones Graecae, Inscriptiones Cypri, XV 1, 1. no. 106, p. 44, Berlin/ Boston: Walter de Gruyter & Co.