Hellenistic

Limestone statue of Artemis Bendis

The head and the body come from different statues. Bendis was a goddess of the hunt, similar to Artemis. Her worship originated in Thrace, a rugged mountainous region in what is today Bulgaria, but became fairly widespread throughout the Greek world by the Hellenistic period. She wears Oriental dress, with a soft leather Phrygian cap and a long-sleeved tunic and trousers. WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 30 3/4 × 12 3/4 × 7 1/4 in., 53 lb. (78.1 × 32.4 × 18.4 cm, 24 kg)

Date

299 - 200 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2477

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

From Kourion, sanctuary of Apollo Hylates

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. CII.675, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1350, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1986. Vol. 3: Atherion-Eros. "Attis," p. 24, no. 2, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 422, pp. 260-1, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 356, pp. 262-63, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.