Figurine

54-28-116

Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery

From: Cyprus | Kourion | Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 54-28-116
Current Location Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display
Provenience Cyprus | Kourion | Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates
Site Name Kourion
Locus Archaic Precinct Fill
Date Made 750–700 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Terracotta
Description

Unmoulded, hollow. "Female figure complete save base and left arm. Body tapers toward base. Solid head, the top fan-shaped, with hair indicated behind by slight indentations with blunt instrument. Right arm holds lustral bough against shoulder. Pellet breasts. Much paint preserved; in black: eyelids, brows, irises, hair on back of head, two diagonal crossing between breasts, entire left shoulder, from which two vertical lines down left side under arm, and from these a broad black band diagonally across lower body; in red: mouth, nose, ears and chin, top of head in front, band around neck, five horizontal bars in lower triangle formed by crossing black bands on breast, horizontal red lines between the two black bands on side, a broad band across lower body parallel to black band, red also on bough."

Height 16 cm
Width 7.1 cm
Depth 3.6 cm
Credit Line Cyprus Expedition, George H. McFadden, 1954
Other Number T1073 - Field No SF | 401 - Other Number

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