Archaic I

Man (?) With Tympanon

Man (?) With Tympanon Statuette of a standing Tympanon player.Cylindrical, hollow body that widens downwards.The head is shaped in a model and attached to the top of the body with a pin.The neck is hardly indicated.The face was shaped in an old model.The hand -shaped arms were attached separately.Both arms are angled to play a small, disc -shaped tympanon: the left hand holds the tympanon while the right hits on it.The conical headgear is not sufficient as a clue to determine the gender of the figure.Black color on the headgear, red and black around the short neck.Red color on arms and tympanone.A black band along both sides of the body, two horizontal ligaments around the belly, three of which hang down vertical short ligaments that apparently illustrate the robe and accessories.Examples found is known.The sacred building there was partially excavated by John L. Myres in 1894.The terracotta and limestone statuettes discovered here are now largely in the Cyprus Museum, but numerous specimens are also located elsewhere, especially in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.The sanctuary could in the 7th century BCHave been founded and existed to Hellenistic time.Bernhard-Walcher and others, the Cypricer Antique Collection in the KHM.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna 1999 (V. Karageghis) H. 18,6 cm