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Accession_Number 47.2.28
Shape Figurine
Shape_description Cylindrical, wheelmade figurine with mouldmade face and handmade arms. Holds quadruped, possibly kid, goat or sheep, with distinctive pellet eye.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Cypriote
Fabric_description Reddish Orange
Munsell_color 5YR 8/6
Decoration Traces of black paint on chest, left arm and back of head, faint stripe on body.
Inscriptions
Condition Intact, but large part of body broken off, also part of right side of the head. Concretion build up below chin and neck. Large deposits along left hand side.
Technique/Style
Provenance Unknown, similar to Larnaca, Kamelarga finds
Period Cypro-Archaic I-II
Date 750-475
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

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Top view of a Cypriote figurine, showing a woman holding a small animal.

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Back view of a Cypriote figurine, showing ventilation hole.

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Front view of a Cypriote figurine, showing a woman holding a small animal.

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Front view of a Cypriote figurine, showing a woman holding a small animal.

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Left profile of a Cypriote figurine, showing a woman holding a small animal.

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Right profile of a Cypriote figurine, showing a woman holding a small animal.

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Back view of a Cypriote figurine, showing ventilation hole.

2008.99.0005.jpg
Front view of a Cypriote figurine, showing a woman holding a small animal.

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Front view of a Cypriote figurine, showing a woman holding a small animal.

2008.99.0007.jpg
Left profile of a Cypriote figurine, showing a woman holding a small animal.

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Right profile of a Cypriote figurine, showing a woman holding a small animal.

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of a Cypriote figurine, showing ventilation hole.
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Beazley_DB
Height 23.0
Diameters Cylinder 5.0
Handle_height
Other_dims. Elbow width 8.1; sheep width 3.9
Location Myth and religion
Edited_by Sadie; Kinsey
Date_edited 21.01.09; 11.01.2006
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