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Accession_Number REDMG:1958.39.1
Shape Female figure
Shape_description Wheel-made female figurine, with mould-made face.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Cypriote
Fabric_description Sandy
Munsell_color 10YR 6/8
Decoration Headdress with decorative segmented fillets reaching to shoulders. Hand-made thick club-like arms with individual fingers, right hand lost, probably held offering. Area object covered suggests it was larger than a tambourine. Traces of red paint, especially on right lower body and one breast painted red.
Inscriptions
Condition Part of splayed base missing, some concretion on back. Face worn, eyes depicted with paint now lost. Nose damaged, ears protrude although now worn.
Technique/Style Wheel-made; mould-made
Provenance
Period Cypro-Archaic I-II
Date 7-6 c BC
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2009.99.0101.jpg		Detailed view of the face of a medium Cypriote female figure.

2009.99.0102.jpg		Detailed view of the face of a medium Cypriote female figure.

2009.99.0103.jpg		Detail of the missing right arm of a Cypriote figurine, showing a male with moulded head.

2009.99.0104.jpg		Front view of a Cypriote figurine, showing a man standing with his left arm along the side.

2009.99.0105.jpg		Back view of a Cypriote figurine, showing a man standing with his left arm along the side.

2009.99.0118.jpg		Over head view of a Cypriote figurine.

2009.99.0119.jpg		View of the base of a Cypriote figurine, showing the hollow interior.

2009.99.0120.jpg		View of the base of a Cypriote figurine, showing the hollow interior.

2009.99.0121.jpg		Detail of the left arm and hand of a Cypriote figurine.

2009.99.0122.jpg		Detail of the left arm and hand of a Cypriote figurine.

2009.99.0123.jpg		Front view of a medium Cypriote female figure.

2009.99.0124.jpg		Left side view of a Cypriote figurine, showing a man standing with his left arm along the side.

2009.99.0125.jpg		Back view of a Cypriote figurine, showing a man standing with his left arm along the side.

2009.99.0126.jpg		Right side view of a Cypriote figurine, showing a man standing and missing his right hand.
Comparanda Karageorghis 1993, 70-1, nos. 246 and 248, pl. XLIX and 102-6 for comments on and bibliography for technique.
Bibliography
Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height 34.5
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims.
Location Reading Museum
Edited_by Amy; Joana Varela
Date_edited 20.05.2011; 05.04.2017
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