Figurine
54-28-116
Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery
From: Cyprus | Kourion | Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
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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