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 century BCE
Periodlate Archaic
Object GeographyCyprus
CultureCypriot
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 with red 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 numberSN28.1913
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.
On View
Not on viewHeight: 50.0 in. (127 cm)
Width (shoulder to shoulder): 20 7/8 in. (53 cm)
Width (bottom of body): 12 3/16 in. (31 cm)
Thickness (lower end of body): 5 7/8 in. (15 cm)
Head
Thickness (nose to back of head): 10 1/4 in. (26 cm)
Width (at cap): 8 1/16 in. (20.5 cm)
Face
Height (base of helmet to under chin): 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)
Width (at cheeks): 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm)
Width (at ears): 7 15/16 in. (20.2 cm)
Earrings (triple spiral, both sides)
Width: 1 5/16 in. (3.28 cm)
Diameter: 11/16 in. (1.71 cm)
Rosette (on helmet)
Diameter: 1 3/4 in. (4.47 cm)
Mount pole
Diameter: 13/16 in. (2 cm)
Pectoral
Width (at shoulders): 4 11/16 in. (11.94 cm)
Width (at center of chest): 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
Pendants in outer row
Length (individual): 1 3/16 in. (3.04 cm)
Cylindrical beads
Length (individual): 1 3/16 in. (3 cm)
Width (individual): 3/8 in. (1 cm)
Spiral arm bracelet with rosette flower
Diameter: 4 1/2 in. (11.4–11. 5 cm)
Thickness (bracelet coil): 5/8 in. (1.36–1.74 cm)
Width (2 coils of bracelet): 1 7/16 in. (3.45–3.95 cm)
Diameter (rosette): 1 9/16 in. (3.9 cm)
Medium Details
Color
Stone: 2.5Y 8/2 (pale yellow)
Paint: 10R 5/6 (red)
Inclusions
n/a
first half of the 6th century BCE
475-310 BCE
late 7th–early 6th century BCE
late 7th–early 6th century BCE
late 7th–early 6th century BCE
