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Male figure wearing a coat with sleeves, Cyprus 4th century BCE

Limestone male figure wearing a coat with sleeves, and big necklace [Scythian style]

Dated in the Museum’s records to the Hellenistic period, 325-250 BCE

H. 1.25 m.

Bequest of John Ringling, 1936. Collection of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art SN28.1928.
(Copyright Collection of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art the State Art Museum of Florida)

“Terracotta and stone statues and statuettes of individuals in the Iranian attire as well as precious metalware and jewelry of Achaemenid shapes continue to provide, as before, the most ‘visible’ leads to Cyprus’ connetions with the imperial environment”

SOURCE
Cultural interconnections in the Achaemenid West: a few reflections on the testimony of the Cypriot archaeological record; Antigoni Zournatzi https://www.academia.edu