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Female statue with long hair, holding fruit, wearing a tunic and cloak, choker with three seed or amphora pendants, and a wrist bracelet with two opposing ends
Female statue with long hair, holding fruit, wearing a tunic and cloak, choker with three seed or amphora pendants, and a wrist bracelet with two opposing ends

Female statue with long hair, holding fruit, wearing a tunic and cloak, choker with three seed or amphora pendants, and a wrist bracelet with two opposing ends

Dateearly 5th century BCE
Periodend of the Archaic to beginning of the Classical
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 numberSN28.1908
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DimensionsOverall
Height (without mount pole): 44 7/8 in. (114 cm)
Height (with mount pole): 49 3/16 in. (125 cm)
Width (max, arm to arm): 18 7/8 in. (48 cm)
Thickness (max, at breasts): 8 7/16 in. (21.5 cm)
Thickness (at buttocks): 6 11/16 in. (17 cm)
Width (at bottom end): 13 3/4 in. (35 cm)
Thickness (at bottom end): 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)
Mount pole (at bottom)
Length: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
Diameter: 5/8 in. (1.6 cm)
Neck
Width: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
Thickness: 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)
Apple
Diameter (best preserved): 1 11/16 in. (4.26)
Apple (cluster of three)
Width: 3 11/16 in. (9.44 cm)
Choker beads (at figure’s right)
Height (preserved): 5/16 in. (0.83 cm)
Width: 5/16 in. (0.75 cm)
Choker beads (center)
Height: 3/8 in. (0.96 cm)
Width: 5/16 in. (0.73 cm)
Choker beads (at figure’s left)
Height: 9/16 in. (1.44 cm)
Width: 5/16 in. (0.72 cm)

Medium Details

Color

Stone:  10 YR 8/2 (very pale brown)

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