Limestone head of beardless male votary with wreath of leaves, Hellenistic Cypriot statue

Hellenistic

Limestone head of beardless male votary with wreath of leaves

Figure with wreath, showing traces of influence of Polyklietos. Overall: 9 x 6 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (22.9 x 16.5 x 19.1 cm)

Date

299 - 200 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2806

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • “From a ruin at Kythrea”

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.685, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1314, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Connelly, Joan. 1988. Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. no. 32, pp. 80, 84, 88, 112, figs. 117-18, Nicosia, Cyprus: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 404, p. 250, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 130, p. 123, Myres 1314, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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