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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