Cesnola, Luigi Palma di [Editor]: A descriptive atlas of the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Band 1) (New York, 1885)

Plate XI

13. Statue of calcareous stone. Height, 3 feet i inch. Found in the temple (Golgoi).

The lower portion of the figure from above the knees is wanting; the back, though
roughly finished, is not flat. A broken spot on the left thigh, produced by the pickaxe of a
digger, is filled in with cement; the left ear is much higher than the right. The figure wears
a short-sleeved upper garment, and drawers fastened by a loosely tied string (a usage which
obtains at the present day among the Cypriote women); the hands hold the two extremities of
the string, as if in the act of tying a knot. On the head a diadem, or Stephanos, ornamented
with rosettes in relief. Red coloring on the surface of the stone is visible, especially between
the arms, and on the strings held in each hand. The chest is worn, or was broken away,
probably, by the splitting of the stone. There is a peculiar character about this figure which
gives rise to a doubt whether it is not intended for the Phoenician form of Aphrodite.
This statue, when discovered, had the head and right forearm detached from the body; and
they have been reset.