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ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art

Votive Head

AAT Object Form/Functionvotive offerings

AAT Object Form/Functionheads (representations)

Place CreatedCyprus, Europe

CultureCypriot

PeriodArchaic

Date6th Century BCE

MediumOolitic marl limestone

Credit LineGift in memory of Barbara Norris Dick, Emory B.A. '70, M.A. '80

DimensionsMaximum w/out base: 3 3/4 × 2 × 2 3/8 in. (9.5 × 5.1 × 6 cm) Maximum incl. Base: 7 × 2 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (17.8 × 6.4 × 6.4 cm)

Object number2020.003.001

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, November 2023 - Present
Published ReferencesA Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Vol. 1 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1885), number 315, plate LIII. (likely)
Handbook No. 3: The Stone Sculptures of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in Halls 14, 18, and 19 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1904), 25, number 325. (likely)

Terms

ProvenanceSaid to be from the sanctuary at Golgoi, Cyprus. Ex coll. Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832-1904), New York, New York, collected in Cyprus, ca. 1865-1877. Ex coll. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, New York, purchased 1873-1878. Possibly sold by Met to Mrs. R. Lord, New York, New York, January 1926. Said to be ex coll. Janet Daniels Schenck (1883-1976), New York, New York, purchased from New York art market, 1928. Thence by descent to Josephine C. Whitford (1907-2000), New York, New York, received as a gift from Schenck, 1976. Ex coll. Sara (Sally) Rayburn, United States, received as a gift from Whitford, 1980.

Status

On view

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