Male statue wearing a tunic, kilt with uraeus snakes on the sash, lotus-flower-knobbed cap with a rosette flower and earflaps folded up, chin strap down cheeks and under chin, spiral earrings, spiral arm bracelet with rosette flower, and three-tiered pectoral necklace
Datesecond quarter of the 6th c. BCE
Periodlate Archaic
Object GeographyCyprus
Geography NotesSaid to be “from the site near the temple” at Golgoi, Cyprus. “When unearthed, the head was broken off, but uninjured; the lower part of the body, on a line with the left wrist, broke off while being raised from the ground; the face and neck were damaged and chipped off, in crossing the Atlantic; the fragments were collected, and, as far as practicable, reset, with such addition of plaster as was indispensable to keep the fragments together.”
MediumLimestone
DimensionsOverall: 50 × 20 × 10 in. (127 × 50.8 × 25.4 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN28.1913
This sculpture of a man brings together Cypriot, Assyrian, and Egyptian styles with its knobbed cap and spiral earrings, thick hair and arm bracelet, and kilt and pectoral collar. As with all votive sculptures, this figure stood in for the worshipper before the deity and profiled the dedicator’s identity.
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475-310 BCE
