Archaic II
Limestone statuette of Herakles brandishing a club
Right arm raised holding club. Overall: 10 x 5 x 2 3/8 in. (25.4 x 12.7 x 6 cm)
Date
500 - 450 BC
Accession No.
74.51.2652
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. LXXXVII, 572, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1095, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Sophocleous, Sophocles. 1985. ""Atlas des représentations chypro-archaiques des divinités." Master's Diss.." Master's Diss. no. 2, p. 37, pl. VIII.1. Paul Aströms Förlag.Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1990. Vol. 5: Herakles-Kenchrias. "Herakles (Cypri)," p. 194, no. 16, pl. 162, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 316, p. 238, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.