The figure wears the double crown of Egypt, a three-row pectoral, a baldric perhaps for a quiver, bracelets, and a kilt that is embellished with winged uraei, a head of the Egyptian god Bes or of the Gorgon Medusa, and an eye.
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Title:Limestone male figure in Egyptian dress
Period:Archaic
Date:mid-6th century BCE
Culture:Cypriot
Medium:Limestone
Dimensions:WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 23 1/4 × 9 × 5 3/8 in., 17.5 lb. (59 × 22.9 × 13.7 cm, 7.9 kg)
Classification:Stone Sculpture
Credit Line:The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Object Number:74.51.2603
Sanctuary of Golgoi–Ayios Photios
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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. XLII.279, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.
Perrot, Georges and Charles Chipiez. 1885. Histoire de l'Art dans l'Antiquité. t. 3, Phénicie, Cypre. p. 533, fig. 359, Paris: Hachette.
Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1266, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Wilson, Veronica. 1975. "The Iconography of Bes with Particular Reference to the Cypriot Evidence." Levant, 7. pl. 18.A.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1978. Antichnoe iskusstvo iz muzeia Metropoliten, Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki: Katalog vystavki. no. 79, Moscow: Sovetskii Khudozhnik.
Sophocleous, Sophocles. 1985. ""Atlas des représentations chypro-archaiques des divinités." Master's Diss.." Master's Diss. p. 170, pl. 40.2. 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. 176, pp. 112–3, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Faegersten, Fanni. 2003. The Egyptianizing Male Limestone Statuary from Cyprus: a study of a cross-cultural eastern Mediterranean votive type. no. 30, p. 348, figs. 10–11, pls. 7.4, 29, Lund, Sweden: The Historical Museum at Lund University.
Markowitz, Yvonne J. and Jeannine Falino. 2006. "The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Jewels and Charles Louis Tiffany." Minerva, 17(3): p. 37, fig. 3.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 281, pp. 242, 461, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Stylianou, Andreas and Patrick Schollmeyer. 2007. "Der Sarkophag aus Golgoi." Dynastensarkophage mit szenischen Reliefs aus Byblos und Zypern: Der Sarkophag aus Amathous als Beispiel kontaktinduzierten Wandels, 2. pp. 216 n. 178, 220 n. 213, Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern.
Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 51, pp. 59, 66–7, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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