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Accession_Number REDMG:1953.25.103
Shape Figurine
Shape_description Moulded female figurine with extended arms, wearing headdress. Flat, roughly worked back. Arm position suggests she may have been a singer, forming parts of a ring and is now broken from her base.
Material Terracotta
Fabric
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 10YR 7/2
Decoration No paint remains.
Inscriptions
Condition Only torso of figurine survives. Facial features worn, arms broken.
Technique/Style
Provenance
Period Cypro-archaic II
Date 650-475
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2003.93.0105.jpg
Front view of a damaged Cypriote figurine, showing the armless torso and the head of a woman

2006.20.0451.jpg
Front view of a damaged Cypriote figurine, showing the armless torso and the head of a woman.

2006.20.0452.jpg
Back view of a damaged Cypriote figurine, showing flat back.

2006.20.0453.jpg
3/4 view of a damaged Cypriote figurine, showing the left profile of the torso and head of a woman.

2006.20.0454.jpg
Obliwue view from below of a damaged Cypriote figurine, showing the line of break.

2007.12.0054.jpg
Front view of broken terracotta figure of woman.

2007.12.0055.jpg
Front view of a damaged Cypriote figurine, showing the armless torso and the head of a woman.

2007.12.0056.jpg
Back view of a damaged Cypriote figurine, showing flat back.

2008.99.0297.jpg
Front view of a damaged Cypriote figurine, showing the armless torso and the head of a woman.

2008.99.0298.jpg
Back view of a damaged Cypriote figurine, showing flat back.
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Beazley_DB
Height 9.5
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims. Widest point 8.0
Location 11.1.4
Edited_by Sadie; Jayne
Date_edited 27.01.2009; 27.04.2022
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