Male statuette head wearing a jeweled and flowered headband and necklace
Datelate 7th century BCE
Periodmid-Archaic
CultureCypriot
MediumTerra cotta (moldmade and handmade, hollow) with white slip
ClassificationCeramics
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), April 20, 1928; purchased by John Ringling; bequest to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1936-present.
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN28.2002
On View
Not on viewHeight: 6 5/16 in. (16 cm)
Width: 5 11/16 in. (14.5 cm)
Thickness: 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)
Mount pin
Length: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm)
Diameter: 1/4 in. (0.67 cm)
Face
Height: 4 15/16 in. (12.5 cm)
Width (cheek to cheek): 3 7/16 in. (8.71 cm)
Width (ear to ear): 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm)
Necklace
Width: 5/16 in. (0.67 to 0.80 cm)
Headband
Height (at front): 3/4 in. (1.86 cm)
Height (at back): 9/16 in. (1.37 cm)
Thickness (without ornaments): 1/4 in. (0.56 cm)
Thickness (with ornaments): 1/2 in. (1.29 cm)
Medium Details
Color (Munsell soil color chart)
Fabric: 10YR 7/4 (very pale brown) to 2.5Y 8/3 (pale yellow); core 10YR 7/4 (very pale brown) and 10YR 7/6 (yellow)
White slip: discolored 7.5YR 6/6 (reddish yellow)
Inclusions
many small sand
5th century BCE
6th century BCE
late 4th–3rd century BCE
1300–1200 BCE
2nd or 1st century BCE