Wreathed Head of a Bearded Male
Cypriot
about 480-460 BCE
Limestone
Overall: 15 1/2 × 9 5/8 in. (39.4 × 24.4 cm)
Overall: 15 1/2 × 9 5/8 in. (39.4 × 24.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Emily Howe Hitchcock, Class of 1872HW
12.1.324
Geography
Place Made: Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, West Asia, Asia
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Classical World
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 1, Bodies and Buildings, Ada Cohen, Steven Kangas, Fall 2012
ARTH 21, Art in Ancient Greece: Temples, Gods, Heroes, Steven Kangas, Fall 2013
REL 1, Patterns of Religious Experience, Elizabeth Perez, Fall 2013
ANTH 7, Thinking About Empire, Alan Covey, Winter 2014
SART 16/SART 21/SART 73, Sculpture 1/2/3, Matt Siegle, Winter 2020
SART 27.01, Printmaking I, Tricia Treacy, Fall 2022
Exhibition History
Ancient Profiles: Sculpture, Prints, and Coins from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 1, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1-December 17, 1997.
Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 13, 2000-February 7, 2005.
Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 28, 1992-April 12, 1994.
Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 19-November 30, 2008.
Glimpses of Ancient Life, Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art's Collection of Ancient Art, Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 19, 2000.
Publication History
"Cesnola's Legacy: An Example of the Greek Influence on Archaic Cypriot Sculpture", N.C. Museum of Art Bulletin. Diana Buitron-Oliver, Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2011.
Douglas F. Jordan, Dartmouth Class of 1947, Four Sculptured Cypriote Heads from the Hitchcock Collection in the Dartmouth College Museum, Dartmouth College Museum Annual Report, 1947-1948, p. 15-20.
Provenance
Collected by Luigi Palma de Cesnola, American Consul to Cyprus, 1865-1876; given to Hiram Hitchcock (1832-1900, Class of 1872H), Hanover, New Hampshire, about 1872; bequeathed to his second wife, Emily Howe Hitchcock (1852-1912), Hanover, New Hampshire, 1900; bequeathed to present collection, 1912.
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