Left hand of a statue holding a double cornucopia filled with grapes and other fruit and wearing a finger ring with oval bezel
Date3rd century BCE
Periodearly Hellenistic
CultureCypriot
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 31, 1928; purchased by John Ringling; bequest to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1936-present.
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN28.1842
On View
Not on viewHeight: 18 1/2 in. (47 cm)
Width (at horn): 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
Width (wrist, at the hand): 7 1/16 in. (18 cm)
Thickness (at horn): 7 1/2 in. (19 cm)
Arm
Width (bottom of arm): 6 11/16 in. (17 cm)
Thickness (bottom of arm): 3 1/8 in. (8 cm)
Drill holes
Diameter: 1/2 in. (1.30 to 1.34 cm)
Cornucopia
Height: 18 1/2 in. (47 cm)
Width (grape to grape): 6 13/16 in. (17.3 cm)
Thickness (front to back, top of horn): 7 3/16 in. (18.2 cm)
Finger ring bezel
Width: 13/16 in. (2.04 cm)
Width (along length of finger): 3/4 in. (1.86 cm)
Finger wearing ring
Diameter (at edge of ring): 1/2 in. (1.21 cm)
Hand
Length (uncurled): 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
Medium Details
Color (Munsell Soil Color Charts)
Stone: 10YR 8/2 (very pale brown)
Paint: 10R 5/6 (red)
Inclusions
n/a
late 7th–early 6th century BCE
late 6th to mid-5th century BCE
late 7th–early 6th century BCE