Male statuette holding an animal (hare?) and bread or box and wearing a belted short-sleeved tunic and cloak
Date3rd–1st century BCE
PeriodHellenistic
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 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 numberSN28.1783
On View
Not on viewHeight: 10 1/16 in. (25.5 cm)
Width: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
Thickness (at knees and hand): 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm)
Animal in left hand preserved
Height: 1 5/16 in. (3.35 cm)
Width: 1 5/16 in. (3.35 cm)
Thickness: 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm)
Bread (in right hand)
Height: 1.0 in. (2.54 cm)
Width: 7/16 in. (1.16 cm)
Medium Details
Color
Stone: 2.5Y 8/2 (pale yellow)
Paint: 10R 5/6 (red)
Inclusions
n/a
mid-6th century BCE
late 6th or early 5th century BCE
end of the 4th-1st century BCE
