Cypriot limestone votive male head, reputedly ex. Cyprus Museum
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A limestone head from a votive figure of a man wearing a laurel wreath in his hair and retaining pink pigment around his mouth.
Culture
Cyprus, mid 5th Century BC
Size
8.9 x 6.2 cms, 15.3 cms including stand
Condition
Fragment as shown, mounted on a white marble display block
Provenance
Ex. private collection, Bath, Somerset, UK; acquired during residency in Cyprus with the British High Commission between 1969 and 1972. The collection was purchased from two licensed antiquities dealers in Ledra Street, Nicosia. The collector was informed that the pieces were sold on behalf of the Cyprus Museum who were disposing of duplicates from their reserve collections at the time.
For a similar head now in the British Museum please compare:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1869-0608-18