Limestone statue of a seated lion - image 1

Classical

Limestone statue of a seated lion

This lion likely crowned a tombstone. The type appears on coins of Amathus in the middle of the fourth century B.C. H. 17 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (44.5 x 41.9 x 14 cm)

Date

399 - 300 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2648

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From the necropolis of Golgoi

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. LXXXIV.549, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Perrot, Georges and Charles Chipiez. 1885. Histoire de l'Art dans l'Antiquité. t. 3, Phénicie, Cypre. p. 597, fig. 407, Paris: Hachette.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1384, p. 240, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Reinach, Salomon. 1924. "Deux mille trois cent quatre-vingt statues." Répertoire de la Statuaire Grecque et Romaine, Vol. 5, pt. 2, 2nd edn. no. 5, p. 419, Paris: E. Leroux.Masson, Olivier. 1971. "Kypriaka IX: Recherches sur les antiquités de Golgoi." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 95(1): p. 316.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 464, p. 334, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.