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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.457
Title
Head of a God, Hero or Votary
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
head, sculpture
Date
late 4th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Cyprus
Period
Classical period, Late, to Early Hellenistic
Culture
Cypriot
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/289143

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
actual: 15 x 12.5 x 9.9 cm (5 7/8 x 4 15/16 x 3 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.457
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 1990
32 Cypriote

Head of a God, Hero, or Votary

The head is broken off at the neck. The nose and one ear are partly missing, as well as a part of the other ear and a piece from the top of the head. There are small pocks and scratches over the surface. There are two parallel drill channels running, front to back under the neck, for attachment to a draped statue (?).

The face has an empty expression, enhanced by the recutting and smoothing between lower lip and point of the chin. The features are heavy-set. This head and its standing statue in a long tunic and cloak belong close to the Type 36/37 groups that span the period around 380-320 B.C. (Pryce, 1931, pp. 112-118).

Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer

Publication History

  • Fogg Art Museum, The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities, A Special Exhibition, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1961), p. 27, no. 207
  • Cornelius C. Vermeule III and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 47, no. 32

Exhibition History

  • The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities: A Special Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, 05/01/1961 - 09/20/1961

Verification Level

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