Object photograph·C03477·1927–1931

Terracotta Proto-Cypriote I (A.I. 1081)

Terracotta figure with head and arms missing, standing on a flat base, legs and feet intact — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C03477. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A headless terracotta figure stands on a flat rectangular base, photographed frontally against a plain pale background. The broad torso is smooth, with a curved ridge at the broken top edge and cracks across the middle, and the slender legs end in toes. The surface is grey-brown with paler highlights.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Terracotta Proto-Cypriote I, A.I. 1081.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Terracotta Proto-Cypriote I, A.I. 1081.

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