Figurine
54-28-127
Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery
From: Cyprus | Kourion | Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
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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