Classical

Limestone temple boy

He sits on a roughly elliptical plinth. His left hand holds a fruit or ball. His right arm stretches down to hold a bird by its wings near his left foot. He wears two strings of seals with oblong pendants in the middle. He also wears earrings. He has an ovoid face, short hair and a flat head at the top. WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 15 1/4 × 12 × 8 in., 20 lb. (38.7 × 30.5 × 20.3 cm, 9.1 kg)

Date

450 - 400 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2764

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

From Cyprus“Found in the ruins of a temple at Curium”

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. CXXXII.984, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1221, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Beer, Cecilia. 1994. Temple-Boys: A Study of Cypriote Votive Sculpture, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. 113. pp. 55-62, pl. 61a-d, Jonsered: Paul Aströms Förlag.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 362, p. 230, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Lightfoot, Christopher S. 2000. "The New Cypriot Galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Minerva, 11(3): pp. 21-2, fig. 16.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 258, p. 204, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.