Limestone head of Apollo - image 1

Hellenistic

Limestone head of Apollo

The face is surrounded by thick curls. The laurel wreath, consisting of groups of three or four leaves, is in high relief and open at the center. Overall: 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (29.8 x 24.1 x 19.1 cm)

Date

300 - 1 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2821

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.663, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1321, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Connelly, Joan. 1988. Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. pp. 48, 79, fig. 111, Nicosia, Cyprus: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.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. 138, fig. 14.5, Oxford: Oxbow Books.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 329, p. 245, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.