Figurine

54-28-127

Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery

From: Cyprus | Kourion | Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 54-28-127
Current Location Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display
Provenience Cyprus | Kourion | Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates
Site Name Kourion
Locus Street One, West | Late Archaic Fill
Date Made 550 BCE–150 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Terracotta
Description

Rider (tall, rounded cap); mass of hair behind and two long braids on each side. The face has large almond shaped swellings for eyes, and very carefully modelled ears. Top of handmade cape shown by incised lines, right shoulder and arms and left forearm exposed. Sits with legs wide-spread, right arm against body, in left held votive offering (?). Much paint directly on clay: in red (thick, semi-lustrous, wine color), cap and cloak; in black, braids and hair behind, three lines around neck, maender pattern on left thigh, marks on left side ofcap; in yellow, flesh (?) (preserved only behind right shoulder); in white, traces, especially with black marks on thigh and cap.

Height 19.8 cm
Width 9.2 cm
Depth 6.4 cm
Credit Line Cyprus Expedition, George H. McFadden, 1954
Other Number T2228 - Field No SF | 3011 - Other Number

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