figurine;
model
- Museum number
- 1900,0903.7
- Description
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Terracotta model-group/figurine with a woman being embraced by two smaller figures with beaked faces; the woman has a hollow, wheelmade column-like body with splaying base; she has a mould-made head with broadly Egyptianising features: wig-like hair, large bulging oval eyes, prominent nose, pursed lips; the hand-made arms are extended forward; the two smaller figures hanging from the woman are hand-made and have beak-like faces and slightly quiffed hair; their legs, ending in crdely rendered feet, clutch the body of the woman; traces of red paint.
- Production date
- 600 BC-500 BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 12.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Caubet A. and Yon M. 1988, 'Un culte populaire de la Grande Déesse à Lapithos', RDAC 1988/2, 1-17, esp. 10-11. Additional examples in Karageorghis Coroplastic, volume VB, 63-4. The model-group, if not simply a very stylised image of a mother with two children, may show a supernatural borthing scene with the two small figures are assisting the woman to give birth.
- Location
- On display (G72/dc3)
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1900,0903.7
