Male statuette wearing short-sleeved tunic, shorts with rosette flowers, rosette flower headband, spiral earrings, and snake-headed spiral arm bracelets
Datefirst half of the 6th century BCE
Periodlate Archaic
Object GeographyCyprus
CultureCypriot
Geography NotesSaid to have been "found in the temple" at Golgoi, Cyprus
MediumLimestone with red and black paint
ClassificationSculpture
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN28.1749
Worshippers dedicated votive sculptures to stand in for them before a deity. The rosettes on the headband and shorts worn by this male statuette show that the dedicator was of some social standing. The statuette’s armlets and earrings closely replicate jewelry worn in life.
On View
Not on viewWidth (max at shoulders): 7 11/16 in. (19.5 cm)
Thickness (max): 3 15/16 in. (10 cm)
Thickness (left leg): 2 11/16 in. (6.75 cm)
Width (left leg): 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm)
Width (face): 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm)
Length (face): 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
Height, face (with headdress): 4 5/16 in. (10.9 cm)
Width, face ear to ear: 3 5/8 in. (9.17 cm)
Width, face cheek to cheek: 2 9/16 in. (6.54 cm)
Diameter, earring left ear: 9/16 in. (1.37 cm)
Width across two spirals of earring, left ear: 9/16 in. (1.41 cm)
Diameter, earring right ear: 9/16 in. (1.36 cm)
Width across two spirals of earring, right ear: 1/2 in. (1.28 cm)
Thickness across three spirals of armlet left arm: 15/16 in. (2.31 cm)
Diameter of one rod of armlet, left arm: 5/16 in. (0.8 cm)
Diameter of armlet, left arm, exterior: 1 3/4 in. (4.37 cm)
Thickness across three spirals of armlet right arm: 15/16 in. (2.41 cm)
Diameter of one rod of armlet, right arm: 5/16 in. (0.77 cm)
Diameter of armlet, right arm, exterior: 1 1/2 in. (3.6 to 3.96 cm)
Diameter of center rosette on shorts: 1 5/16 in. (3.37 to 3.21 cm)
Diameter of center rosette on headdress: 1.0 in. (2.4 to 2.68 cm)
Height of headband at front: 7/8 in. (2.25 cm)
Height of headband at edges: 1 1/8 in. (2.82 cm)
Medium Details
Color
Stone: 2.5Y 8/2 (pale yellow)
Paint: 10R 5/6 (red) and N 3/ (very dark gray)
Inclusions
n/a
first half of the 6th century BCE
second quarter of the 6th c. BCE
475-310 BCE
mid-6th century BCE
600-540 BC