Stone votive relief of an eye - image 1

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Stone votive relief of an eye

The surface of the small, almost rectangular plaque is burned. An eye with a thick eyelid is sculpted into the surface. WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 3 1/16 × 3 9/16 in., 0.5 lb. (7.8 × 9 cm, 0.2 kg)

Date

399 - 200 BC

Accession No.

74.51.5170

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. CXXIX.934, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1683, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Masson, Olivier. 1997. "Les ex-voto trouves par L. Palma di Cesnola a Golgoi en 1870." Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes no. (k), p. 27, pl. VII.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 406, p. 290, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.