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Object Type
Museum number: 1894,1101.178
Description: Four joined fragments of a terracotta lion-head, possibly a votive mask; moulded; provided with two piercings, either for suspension or in imitation of the original, one below the left ear and the other above the forehead; surviving eye outlined in black, with traces of a black and purple paint or wash elsewhere on the mask; made of buff, finely levigated clay, thin walls.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 600BC-500BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus, Site E, tomb 83
Materials
Technique: pierced; painted; moulded
Dimensions: Height: 13.40 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: See also: V. Karageorghis, 'Notes on some terracotta masks from Amathus now in the British Museum', Rivista di Studi Fenici XVIII (1990), pp. 3-15.
Bibliographic references: Terracotta / Catalogue of Terracottas in the British Museum (A178); Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p. 111-112 & fig. 164, no. 4); Karageorghis Coroplastic III / The coroplastic art of ancient Cyprus III. The Cypro-Archaic period. Large and medium size sculpture. (p. 118, cat. no. 35 & pl. LXVIII:3)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1894,1101.178

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