Limestone beardless male head with ivy wreath

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late 6th or early 5th century BCE · Limestone · Greek and Roman Art

He has a prominent chin, rounded cheeks, smiling lips, ridged eyelids and ridged arched eyebrows. He wears a wreath around his head that is fastened with a knot above the middle of his forehead. The wreath has two rows of leaves and two bunches of berries in the front above the knot. There are two rows of curly hair below the wreath.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 6th or early 5th century BCE

Medium

Limestone

Culture

Cypriot

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76