Hellenistic
Limestone head of Apollo
Head with triple wreath of leaves. Overall: 11 1/8 x 8 x 8 in. (28.3 x 20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Date
275 - 225 BC
Accession No.
74.51.2694
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. XCVII.661, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1319, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Connelly, Joan. 1988. Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. pp. 48, 79, fig. 110, Nicosia, Cyprus: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.Hadjisavvas, Sophocles. 2003. From Ishtar to Aphrodite: 3200 years of Cypriot Hellenism, Treasures from the Museums of Cyprus no. 78, p. 135, New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), Inc.Hermary, Antoine. 2009. "Un Apollon Chypriote aux Boucles 'Libyques'." Proceedings of the International Conference Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity, Nicosia, 3-6 April 2003, Vasiliki Kassianidou, Demetres Michaelides, and Robert S. Merrillees, eds. p. 139, fig. 14.7, Oxford: Oxbow Books.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 331, p. 247, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.