Standing female figurine - image 1

Archaic II

Standing female figurine

The figurine is mold-made and solid. The back is smoothed. The molding margin was not well trimmed. The lower part of the figurine seems to have been cut off. H. 4 15/16 in. (12.5 cm)

Date

600 - 480 BC

Accession No.

74.51.1553

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From CyprusSaid to be from a tomb at Amathus

References

  • Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1894. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 2. pl. XXIV.192, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1895. The Terracottas and Pottery of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in Halls 4 and 15. no. 61, p. 6, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2156, p. 351, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine. 2000. Amathonte: Les figurines en terre cuite, archaïques et classiques, les sculptures en pierre, Vol. 5. pp. 83, 89, n. 210, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 163, pp. 97, 258-59, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.