Bejeweled female portrait, Cyprus, Hellenistic [d/b]

Limestone female head from the sanctuary of Aphrodite at Arsos (Larnaca). Early 3rd century BCE.

Cyprus Museum, Nicosia

Lit.: Halbertsma, R. B., & Pilides, D. (Eds.). (2019). Cyprus. A Dynamic Island. Sidestone Press.

“This exceptionally fine Cypriot head is closest in quality and style to the well-known ‘Lady of Arso’ in Nicosia. The Pitcairn head is among the best of a group of votive sculptures of the Hellenistic period identified by Connelly as coming from the site of Arsos. Production at this local workshop began in the early 3rd century BCE, when the generic types bear a relationship to representations of the early Ptolemies, and lasted into the middle of the 1st century BCE. (Connelly, 1988, pp. 25-31).” (David Gilman Romano and Irene Bald Romano, _Catalogue of the Classical Collections of the Glencairn Museum_, 1999, 8)

Sources:
– David Gilman Romano and Irene Bald Romano, Catalogue of the Classical Collections of the Glencairn Museum, 1999, 8.
– David Gilman Romano and Irene Bald Romano Greece and Rome: The Classic World: An Exhibit of Greek and Roman Artifacts, Glencairn Museum, 1986, no. 31.”