figurine
- Museum number
- 1900,0903.12
- Description
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Terracotta votive female figurine holding a dove; hand-made and worked with a incising tool; column-like body on a splaying base, surface showing signs of shaving with a tool; the right hand is raised in the air in a devotional gesture; the left holds a large dove at her waist; large nose, slight lip and chin, eyes not indicated; around the head is a large, plain turban, behind which falls what appears to be a mass of spreading hair, or else very large ear-caps, details indicated by parallel incisions; round the neck are two elaborate necklaces, one supporting a pendant with a projecting knob, the other extending to the navel behind the bird and supporting a cylindrical shaped pendant; pale buff clay with traces of red and black paint on the lower part of the body.
- Production date
- 600BC-550BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 14.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See V. Karageorghis, The coroplastic art of ancient Cyprus V. The Cypro-Archaic period small female figurines. A. Handmade/wheelmade figurines, A.G. Leventis Foundation 1998, pp. 35-45 for a full discussion of the 'Lapithos workshop'. The cave in which the figurines were discovered may have been a sanctuary connected with a goddess connected with childbirth, though the varied attitudes of the votaries can be found in other shrines throughout the island in this period.
- Location
- On display (G72/dc3)
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1900,0903.12
