Male statue head wearing a wreath of leaves
Date2nd century BCE
Periodmid-Hellenistic
CultureCypriot
MediumLimestone
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 numberSN28.1609
On View
Not on viewHeight: 10 1/4 in. (26 cm)
Width: 7 13/16 in. (19.8 cm)
Thickness: 9 1/16 in. (23 cm)
Face
Height: 10 3/8 in. (26.4 cm)
Width (cheek to cheek): 6.0 in. (15.2 cm)
Mount pole
Length: 4.0 in. (10.2 cm)
Diameter: 1/8 in. (0.32 cm)
Medium Details
Color
Stone: 10YR 8/2 (very pale brown); patina 7.5YR 7/3 (pink)
Inclusions
n/a
second half of the 4th century BCE
5th century BCE
late 6th–early 5th century BCE
3rd–1st century BCE
second half of the 5th century BCE
3rd–1st century BCE
early 5th century BCE
5th century BCE
late 4th century BCE
late 4th-1st century BCE
3rd–1st century BCE