Male statue head wearing a pointed conical cap with earflaps folded up and spiral earrings
Datefirst half of the 6th century BCE
Periodlate Archaic
CultureCypriot
MediumLimestone with red and black paint
ClassificationSculpture
ProvenanceFound by Luigi Palma di Cesnola (American Consul to Cyprus, 1865–1876); purchased by subscription by the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1874–1876; (sale, the Anderson Galleries, New York), March 30, 1928; purchased by John Ringling; bequest to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1936-present.
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN28.1762
On View
Not on viewWidth (at ears): 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm)
Width (base at hair): 5 3/16 in. (13.25 cm)
Width (base at neck): 3 9/16 in. (9 cm)
Length of mount pole: 2 7/16 in. (6.25 cm)
Diameter of mount pole: (3/8 in. (0.9 cm)
Width of face at cheeks: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)
Width of face at ears: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
Height of face complicated by cap, from chin to top of cap below knob: 7 1/2 in. (19 cm)
Width of earrings: 1/2 in. (1.22 cm)
Diameter of earrings: 7/16 in. (1.18 cm)
Diameter of rod twisted for earring: 3/16 in. (0.55 cm)
Medium Details
Color (Munsell soil color chart)
Stone: 10 YR 8/2 (very pale brown)
Paint: 10R 6/4 (pale red) for red and N 4/ (dark gray) (at eyebrow) for black
Inclusions
n/a
second quarter of the 6th century BCE
late 7th–early 6th century BCE
late 7th–early 6th century BCE
late 7th–early 6th century BCE
early to mid-6th century BCE
second half of the 5th century BCE
early 5th century BCE
late 4th-1st century BCE