Kourion Complex (Stadium), terracotta objects 1948

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in a very characteristic clay. These are found elsewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean, but their place of origin, if one only, is not known. At [handwritten: Kourion] Gurium, there is reason to believe that the ingenious artists produced very successful imitations locally, even the unusual fabric being copied.

Perhaps the finest piece in the whole collection, however, is not [handwritten: an] import. It is a horseman made with the characteristic local technique (handmade body and horse, and mold-made face), but on a larger scale and with the care of a master-coroplast. The prancing horse is modelled with great realism and spirit, as is its young rider in cuirass.

In addition to the horsemen of [handwritten: Kourion] Gurium, there are a few molded standing votaries preserved among the dedications and some few handmade votive animals.

(3) Miscellaneous finds from the Sanctuary of Apollo, [handwritten: Kourion] Gurium Acropolis, and sites connected with [handwritten: Kourion] Gurium are isolated [handwritten: and few] finds small in number, but on occasion their context provides independent evidence for the dating of terracottas in the two consistent groups described above. They have been catalogued and assigned to their particular classes where they are of types already studied in (1) and (2). Where they are not, they have been studied independently, since their small number would not warrant separate publication.*

The total assemblage will illustrate figurines of all types—votive, funerary, and household, imported and local, used in a great Cypriote city-state—and, most important, it will trace the history of an industry which, probably more than any other, reveals the development of a people throughout that millennium which we call Classical Antiquity.

[handwritten: Gurium Excavations] -John Howard Young [handwritten: January 6, 1948] -Suzanne Halstead Young

*A few terracottas of the Bronze Age and those forming part of tomb-groups of the Ayios Ermoyenis cemetery are being studied by their excavators and will be published separately in their own contexts.