The head and body are from two different statues. The regular features and serene expression of the face as well as the carefully modeled drapery that makes clear the figure's stance show the influence of high Classical Greek style. The man holds a bough in one hand and a round pyxis, probably containing incense, in the other. Like most votive statues dedicated to a god, he wears a wreath.
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Title:Limestone statue of a young man
Period:Classical
Date:mid-4th century BCE
Culture:Cypriot
Medium:Limestone
Dimensions:63 3/4 × 22 × 10 in., 500 lb. (161.9 × 55.9 × 25.4 cm, 226.8 kg)
Classification:Stone Sculpture
Credit Line:The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Accession Number:74.51.2465
Sanctuary of Golgoi–Ayios Photios
Doell, Johannes. 1873. Die Sammlung Cesnola. no. 123, p. 30, pl. VI.4, St. Petersburg: L’Académie Impérial des Sciences.
Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1877. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations During Ten Years' Residence in That Island. p. 160, London: John Murray.
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. CXXVII.921, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.
Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1406, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo National Museum, and Kyoto Municipal Museum. 1972. Treasured Masterpieces of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 38, fig. 38, Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum.
Connelly, Joan. 1988. Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. no. 31, pp. 3, 4, 80, 84, 88, 101, 112, fig. 116, Nicosia, Cyprus: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 402, pp. 246–47, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tatton-Brown, Veronica. 2000. "The New Galleries of Cypriot Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Apollo, 152: pp. 7–8, fig. 9.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 298, pp. 258, 465, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Schultz, Peter and Ralf von den Hoff. 2007. Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context pp. 169–70, fig. 124, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 90, pp. 84, 96–7, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Scherrer, Peter, Gabriele Koiner, and Anja Ulbrich. 2013. Hellenistisches Zypern [Hellenistic Cyprus. Proceedings of the International Conference, Department of Archaeology, University of Graz, 14 October 2010] p. 132, [n.113], Graz: Unipress graz.
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