PERMANENT The Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota, Florida ringling.org This head of a colossal male statue, which once may have stood nearly 15 feet tall, reportedly comes from the site of Golgoi in the central lowlands of Cyprus. Dated to the late seventh or early sixth century BCE, the limestone statue was among several hundred such pieces and other ritual objects excavated in the 1870s by the then-U.S. consul at Larnaka, Luigi Palma di Cesnola. During the first millennium BCE, Golgoi was a religious and artistic hub with a temple dedicated to Apollo. As votive statues kept accumulating at the […]
