Object photograph·C00291·1927–1931

Terracotta Minor Plastic Animals, figurine

Terracotta figurine of an animal head, with round eyes, a projecting ear or horn and a broken lower edge — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00291. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A clay animal head, shown alone and lit from the left, with a long snout at the left and two round raised eyes with small holes. A flat, angular projection rises above the eyes, and the back and lower edge of the piece are rough and broken. The object sits on a black card with cut corners, which is set on a pale grey card, and a handwritten number label is at the lower right corner.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Terracotta Minor Plastic Animals.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Terracotta Minor Plastic Animals.

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