The boy sits on a thin, flat roughly triangular base, with his left leg folded flat on the base and his right knee bent. His left arm is bent forward and rests on his left leg. His right arm is also bent and rests on his right knee. He has a round face and short hair marked with shallow grooves. He wears a knee-length, short-sleeved tunic. Grooves on the sleeves and the border of the garment may indicate folds. A string of applied seals, amulets, and rings hangs across his chest from his left shoulder to underneath his right arm.
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Title:Seated boy
Period:Late Cypro-Classical II–Early Hellenistic
Date:ca. 325–300 BCE
Culture:Cypriot
Medium:Terracotta; mold-made
Dimensions:H. 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm)
Classification:Terracottas
Credit Line:The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Object Number:74.51.1449
From Cyprus From Kourion, the temple of Apollo Hylates
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Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1895. The Terracottas and Pottery of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in Halls 4 and 15. no. 269, p. 24, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1463, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Robinson, David Moore. 1931. Excavations at Olynthus: The Terra-cottas of Olynthus found in 1931, Vol. 7, D.M. Robinson, ed. p. 78, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
Connelly, Joan. 1990. "Hellenistic Terracottas of Cyprus and Kuwait." The Coroplast's Art: Greek Terracottas of the Hellenistic World, Jaimee Uhlenbrock, ed. p. 95, fig. 83, New Rochelle, N.Y.: College Art Gallery, State University College New Paltz.
Beer, Cecilia. 1994. Temple-Boys: A Study of Cypriote Votive Sculpture, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. 113. pp. 55–62, pls. 92, 93a-b, no. 187, Jonsered: Paul Aströms Förlag.
Barnes, Lorna and Ellen Salzman. 1998. "Preliminary Investigations of Surface Decoration on a Group of Ancient Terracottas from Cyprus." Glass, Ceramics and Related Materials : ICOM Committee for Conservation Glass, Ceramics, and Related Materials Working Group, & Institute of Arts and Design Department of Conservation Studies, Alice B. Paterakis, ed. pp. 78–80, fig. 3, Vantaa, Finland: EVTEK Institute of Art and Design, Dept. of Conservation Studies.
Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 432, p. 268, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 302, pp. 261, 466, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 332, pp. 198–99, 261, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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