Object photograph·C08962·1927–1931

Terracotta Neo-Cypriote, Ashmolean Museum

Bearded head with a cylindrical headdress, terracotta, from Solamis — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C08962. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A head shown frontally against a plain light background. It wears a cylindrical headdress with a band of incised circles and a notched lower band, and has large almond-shaped eyes, a straight nose and ears. A long beard is marked with fine vertical grooves that end in a row of loops, and a crack runs across the forehead and nose.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Terracotta Neo-Cypriote, Ashmolean Museum. 1909.837 Solamis J.H.S XII. P. 149. Fig. 7.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild. Terracotta Neo-Cypriote, Ashmolean Museum. 1909.837 Solamis J.H.S XII. P. 149. Fig. 7.

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