Golgoi, Sanctuary at / sculpture fragment, head / Limestone
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.02.9108
- Object Name
- sculpture fragment, head
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Sculpture and Figurines
- Materials
- Limestone
- Weight
- too heavy for lab scales
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Male head with Egyptian hairstyle. Broken across chin and down to back of head, with upper area of right shoulder partially preserved; missing tip of nose. Limestone. Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Golgoi, Cyprus. p.H. 0.31 m, W. 0.135 m, D. 0.273 m (Rocks, Paper, Memory; Larson).
- Subjects
- Male with Egyptian wig
- Verbatim Date
- ca 550-525 BC
- Verbatim Provenance
- Cyprus
- Verbatim Site
- Golgoi, Sanctuary at
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Pedestal 07 - Archaic Head
- Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures (exhibit)
- Exhibition Curator
- Talalay, Lauren
- Ratté, Christopher
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- 2015
- Publication Title
- Catalogue of the Cypriote Sculptures and Terracottas in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, the University of Michigan (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology)
- Archaische Kalksteinplastik Zyperns: Unterschungen zur Iknographie, Typologie und formgeschichtlichen Entwicklung der kyprischen Rundplastik der archaischen Zeit (dissertation)
- Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures
- Passionate Curiosities: Tales of Collectors & Collections from the Kelsey Museum
- Publication Author
- Albertson, F.C.
- Mylonas, D.G.
- Ratte, Christopher, Artin, Wendy, Larson, Katherine A.
- Talalay, Lauren E.; Cool, Margaret Root
- Publication Year
- 1991
- 1998
- 2015
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.02.9108
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.02.9108/dscn3958.jpg
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"Golgoi, Sanctuary at; sculpture fragment, head; Limestone." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.02.9108/dscn3958.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
