ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 6TH CENTURY B.C.

Shown in the so-called “Cypro-Ionian” style, the figure stands with his left leg slightly advanced and his arms at his sides. He wears a conical cap surmounting his long hair which falls in a mass along his neck. He wears a chiton and a himation secured over his left shoulder. As A. Hermary and J.R. Mertens note (p. 75 in The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art), the Cypriot adaption of Greek styles, most markedly visible in the Hellenic clothing, represents local connections with the principal East Greek workshops, particularly Samos. Toward the end of the Archaic Period these developments, observed in the present figure, would include the adoption of the nude kouros type. For a similar figure, see no. 74 in Hermary and Mertens, op. cit.