Fragment einer Frau mit Kitz (?)
7. - 6. Jh. v. Chr.
Standing human figure holding a quadruped. The sex is indeterminable, but probably female. Cylindrical wheel-made body. The lower part of the body is missing and has been restored. Face mold-made. Round flat face, with leaf-shaped eyes, ridged eyelids and eyebrows, ear-caps for ears, curly hair with a beaded surface and horizontal fringe, two short locks of hair on either side of the face. Flat back side of head, with air-hole. Black paint for hair, red for the whole face. Both arms are bent to hold a quadruped (a kid?) against the chest. The quadruped has pellet eyes, a raised short tail. Black bands on its body.
A. Bernhard-Walcher u.a., Die Sammlung zyprischer Antiken im KHM. Sammlungskataloge des KHM Bd. 2, Wien 1999 (V. Karageorghis)
Standing human figure holding a quadruped. The sex is indeterminable, but probably female. Cylindrical wheel-made body. The lower part of the body is missing and has been restored. Face mold-made. Round flat face, with leaf-shaped eyes, ridged eyelids and eyebrows, ear-caps for ears, curly hair with a beaded surface and horizontal fringe, two short locks of hair on either side of the face. Flat back side of head, with air-hole. Black paint for hair, red for the whole face. Both arms are bent to hold a quadruped (a kid?) against the chest. The quadruped has pellet eyes, a raised short tail. Black bands on its body.
A. Bernhard-Walcher u.a., Die Sammlung zyprischer Antiken im KHM. Sammlungskataloge des KHM Bd. 2, Wien 1999 (V. Karageorghis)
Time:
7. - 6. Jh. v. Chr.
Object Name
Statuette
Culture
Zyprisch
Location of discovery:
Kamelarga (bei Larnaka, Zypern)
Material/technology:
Ton hellgelblich; Körper auf der Scheibe gefertigt, Kopf in einem Model geformt; Bemalung rot und schwarz
Dimensions:
H. 15,3 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Antikensammlung
Invs.
Antikensammlung, V 2010
Provenance
Ashmolean Museum Oxford; aus den Ausgrabungen von John L. Myres 1894; 1905 Geschenk
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