Limestone hand holding a piece of fruit - image 1

Bronze Age

Limestone hand holding a piece of fruit

Overall: 2 1/16 x 1 5/8 x 3 1/2 in. (5.2 x 4.1 x 8.9 cm)

Date

3900 BC - 100 AD

Accession No.

74.51.2715

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. XXIX.191, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1171, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 298, p. 225, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.