Weibliches Idol der Base-Ring Ware
1450 - 1200 v. Chr.
Standing nude female figure. Handmade, hollow. “Base-ring” ware fabric, smooth with strokes. Exaggeratedly long pointed nose, short groove for mouth, eyes rendered with pellets impressed with a circle, large ears, flat head protruding at the back. Cylindrical neck, pointed breasts. Slender arms bent forward, the hands support the breasts, the fingers rendered with grooves. The pubic triangle is outlined with grooved lines and is filled with horizontal rows of oblique, grooved strokes. The legs are close to one another and are flattened but not bent at the terminals where there are the feet, with vertical grooves to show the toes. Black paint for hair, purple stroke for mouth, two black and one purple-brown band around neck, red paint for navel, black paint inside triangle. The back side is plain.
A. Bernhard-Walcher u.a., Die Sammlung zyprischer Antiken im KHM. Sammlungskataloge des KHM Bd. 2, Wien 1999 (V. Karageorghis)
Standing nude female figure. Handmade, hollow. “Base-ring” ware fabric, smooth with strokes. Exaggeratedly long pointed nose, short groove for mouth, eyes rendered with pellets impressed with a circle, large ears, flat head protruding at the back. Cylindrical neck, pointed breasts. Slender arms bent forward, the hands support the breasts, the fingers rendered with grooves. The pubic triangle is outlined with grooved lines and is filled with horizontal rows of oblique, grooved strokes. The legs are close to one another and are flattened but not bent at the terminals where there are the feet, with vertical grooves to show the toes. Black paint for hair, purple stroke for mouth, two black and one purple-brown band around neck, red paint for navel, black paint inside triangle. The back side is plain.
A. Bernhard-Walcher u.a., Die Sammlung zyprischer Antiken im KHM. Sammlungskataloge des KHM Bd. 2, Wien 1999 (V. Karageorghis)
Time:
1450 - 1200 v. Chr.
Object Name
Statuette
Culture
Zyprisch
Location of discovery:
Idalion (Dhali, Zypern)
Material/technology:
Ton braun; handgeformt
Dimensions:
H. 19,4 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Antikensammlung
Invs.
Antikensammlung, V 1171
Provenance
Cesnola, Luigi Palma di, Konsul, Larnaka; 1869 Kauf
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