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Accession_Number 13.10.37
Shape Figurine
Shape_description Fragment of female (?), handmade head, with distinctive pointed nose.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Cypriote
Fabric_description
Munsell_color
Decoration Red wash and some added clay. A dot on the left hand side of the head may be an earring or ear, one on the neck part of a neacklace.
Inscriptions
Condition Single fragment broken at the neck and without top of head.
Technique/Style
Provenance
Period Cypro-geometric III
Date 800-750
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2005.02.0194.jpg
Top view of the head of a Cypriote figurine, showing a man with a pointed nose.

2005.02.0195.jpg
Oblique view of the head of a Cypriote figurine, showing the bottom of the fragment.

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2008.01.0007.jpg
Front view of the head of a Cypriote figurine, showing a man with pointed nose and missing the top of the head.

2008.01.0008.jpg
3/4 of the front and right profile of the head of a Cypriote figurine, showing a man with pointed nose and missing the top of the head.

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3/4 of the front and right profile of the head of a Cypriote figurine seen from below, showing the severed neck of a man with pointed nose.

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3/4 of the front and right profile of the head of a Cypriote figurine seen from below, showing the severed neck of a man with pointed nose.

2008.99.0291.jpg
Front view of the head of a Cypriote figurine, showing a man with pointed nose and missing the top of the head.

2008.99.0292.jpg
3/4 of the front and right profile of the head of a Cypriote figurine, showing a man with pointed nose and missing the top of the head.
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Beazley_DB
Height 7.0
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims.
Location 1.1.3
Edited_by Sadie; Jayne
Date_edited 27.01.2009; 05.03.22
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