Object photograph·C06379·1927–1931

Terracotta Cypro-Greek I Mersinaki I-II (Me. 0982)

Terracotta head of a bearded male statue wearing a crown of rosettes, shown in close view — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C06379. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Close photograph of a sculpted head of a bearded man with heavy-lidded eyes, a chipped nose and a beard made of rows of rounded curls. A band of rounded rosette-like ornaments sits across the top of the head above a textured hair band. Pale repair lines and bluish retouching show along the chin and right side of the face against a plain grey background.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Terracotta Cypro-Greek I Mersinaki I-II, Me. 0982.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Terracota Cypro-Greek I Mersinaki I-II, Me. 0982.

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