Geometric III
Bronze statuette of a stag
Much corroded, with several holes and cracks; cast solid. H. 5 1/16 in. (12.9 cm)
Date
899 - 700 BC
Accession No.
74.51.5589
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
- Said to be from Kourion, Cyprus
References
- Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1877. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations During Ten Years' Residence in That Island. pl. XXX, London: John Murray.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. LXV, 5, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4766, p. 488, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 2, pp. 6-7, New York: Gilliss Press.Reinach, Salomon. 1924. Répertoire de la Statuaire Greque et Romaine, Tome V, Vol. 1. no. 8, p. 449, Paris: E. Leroux.