Animal statuette with a saddle, on which are storage jars (amphoras), sacks, people, and a cornucopia
Date3rd–1st century BCE
PeriodHellenistic
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 numberSN28.1797
On View
Not on viewHeight: 10 13/16 in. (27.5 cm)
Length: 18 1/8 in. (46 cm)
Thickness: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm)
Saddle
Height: 6 11/16 in. (17 cm)
Width: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm)
Width (including objects extending beyond saddle): 7 5/16 in. (18.6 cm)
Length: 12 1/16 in. (30.6 cm)
Amphora
Height: 3 1/16 in. (7.73 cm)
Width (body): 2 3/4 in. (7.06 cm)
Diameter (body, at center): 2 13/16 in. (7.19 cm)
Sack
Height: 4 13/16 in. (12.15 cm)
Width (at bottom): 3 1/4 in. (8.28 cm)
Width (at top): 2 3/16 in. (5.55 cm)
Object (left of sack)
Height: 4 15/16 in. (12.47 cm)
Striding person holding something
Height: 5 1/4 in. (13.37 cm)
Running person
Height: 6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm)
Man (left of object to left of sack)
Height: 4 1/2 in. (11.41 cm)
Profile head of man (left of object to left of sack)
Height: 1 1/4 in. (3.18 cm)
Width: 1 1/4 in. (3.18 cm)
Medium Details
Color
Stone: 10 YR 8/2 (very pale brown)
Inclusions
n/a
1100-1000 BCE
late 5th–early 4th century BCE
900-800 BCE
2400–2100 BCE
late 7th–early 6th century BCE
mid-6th century BCE