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Object photograph·Csn0353·1927–1931

Limestone Neo-Cypriote

Limestone Neo-Cypriote head of a bearded figure in side view, wearing a tall headdress, on a dark stand
Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn0353. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A pale limestone head shown in three-quarter profile, with a long straight nose, a narrow heavy-lidded eye and a small mouth. A tall flat-topped headdress rises above the brow, and the beard along the jaw is cut with diagonal strokes. The head sits on a dark rectangular stand against a grey backdrop, with a number label on the headdress.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Limestone Neo-Cypriote.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Limestone Neo-Cypriote.