Hellenistic
Limestone head of a veiled female votary
Female head with veil, frontlet and earring. WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 10 3/4 × 10 1/2 × 11 in., 28.5 lb. (27.3 × 26.7 × 27.9 cm)
Date
199 - 150 BC
Accession No.
74.51.2812
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
- From Salamis
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. CV.682, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1322, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Connelly, Joan. 1988. Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. no. 51, pp. 81, 85, 99, figs. 161-62, Nicosia, Cyprus: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 212, pp. 174-75, 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. 139, n. 144, Graz: Unipress graz.