Cypriot Limestone Votive Head in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011

Title: Limestone votive head

Period: Hellenistic

Date: 3rd–1st century BCE

Culture: Cypriot

Medium: Limestone

Dimensions: Overall: 1 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (4.4 x 12.1 cm)

Classification: Stone Sculpture

Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76

Object Number: 74.51.2598

This head, slightly swollen on one side, was part of a group of votive offerings. All of these ex-votos, symbolic dedications representing parts of the human body that needed to be healed, were found in one spot, as if they were placed before an altar or a temple.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/242149