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Accession_Number 14.9.119
Shape Statuette
Shape_description Female head, appearing to wear sakkos, but now broken at back with a row of curls at the front.
Material Limestone
Fabric Cypriote
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 2.5Y 7/2
Decoration Wreath around head. No evidence of painted decoration or metal attachments. She may have been smiling, although there is considerable erosion of the facial features. Ring-shaped decoration covers her ears.
Inscriptions
Condition Poor, cracked in two places, along right side of the hair line continuing across face and horizontally upwards, into head.
Technique/Style
Provenance Achna
Period Cypro-classical I
Date 475-350
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

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Right side view of a Cypriot head.

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Left side view of a Cypriot head.

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Front view of Cypriot head.

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Top view of a Cypriot head.

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Back view of a Cypriot head.

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Front view from slightly above of Cypriot head.

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Front view of Cypriot head.

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Right side view of a Cypriot head.

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Left side view of a Cypriot head.

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Top view of a Cypriot head.
Comparanda Cf. B.M. Cat. Sculpture I.2 (F.N. Pryce) pp. 68-80
Bibliography
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB
Height 12.9
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims.
Location 3.1.1
Edited_by Jessica
Date_edited 11.06.2003
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