Fragment of a woman with Kitz (?), Archaic I Cypriot statue

Archaic I

Fragment of a woman with Kitz (?)

Fragment of a woman with Kitz (?) Statuette of a standing human figure that holds an animal.Your gender cannot be determined, but probably female.Cylindrical body made on the pane.The lower part of the body has not been preserved and was added.Round, flat, face shaped in a model with leaf -shaped eyes, raised eyelids and eyebrows;Earchate as ears, curly hair with a pearl -like surface and horizontal fringe, two short hair curls on both sides of the face.Flat back of the head with air hole.Black painting on the hair, red all over the face.Both arms are angled and carry an animal (a fawn?) On the chest.The animal has beads as eyes and a short cock raised.Black ligaments on the body.Bernhard-Walcher and others, the Cypricer Antique Collection in the KHM.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna 1999 (V. Karageghis) H. 15,3 cm

Date

700 - 600 BC

Accession No.

Antikensammlung, V 2010

Collection

Vienna Museum

Provenance

  • Ashmolean Museum Oxford;From the excavations by John L. Myres 1894;1905 gift

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