Archaic I
Sitting monkey
Sitting monkey bell -shaped statuette of a monkey.The body is only partially preserved.Elongated face with balls as ears.Head and snout painted red.Both front arms are angled towards the chest.Horizontal black band around the belly, alternating groups of vertical ligaments in red and black color under the stomach.Black ribbons over the front arms.Hole on one side under the left forearm for a movable hind leg (?). Affen statuettes were widespread in Coroplastic art from Cyprus.They appear quite frequently in Cyprical-Archaic times.The perforation below the left arm was probably intended to attach a rattle.Such statuettes served as toys.Bernhard-Walcher and others, the Cypricer Antique Collection in the KHM.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna 1999 (V. Karageghis) H. 8,8 cm
Date
650 - 600 BC
Accession No.
Antikensammlung, V 1181
Collection
Vienna Museum
Provenance
- Cesnola, Luigi Palma di, Konsul, Larnaka;1869 purchase
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