Archaic II

Model of a cart with a human figure

The figurine is handmade. The cart has low sides with a slightly convex border, a flaring tubular socket for a pole, and wheels with painted spokes. The occupant of the cart is a reclining male figure. H. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)

Classification

Object type: Model
Material: Clay
Period: Iron AgeCypro-ArchaicCypro-Archaic II
Date: 600 - 480 BC
Place of production: Cyprus
Findspot: Amathus

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Accession No.

74.51.1794

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

From CyprusSaid to be from a tomb at Amathus

References

Doell, Johannes. 1873. Die Sammlung Cesnola. no. 939, p. 62, pl. XIV.14, St. Petersburg: L’Académie Impérial des Sciences.Colonna-Ceccaldi, Georges. 1882. Monuments Antiques de Chypre, de Syrie et d'Égypte. p. 134, fig. 5, Paris: Didier.Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1894. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 2. pl. XIV.113, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2112, p. 346, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Crouwel, Joost H. 1985. "Carts in Iron Age Cyprus." Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus (RDAC), : no. TM2, pp. 204, 209, 212, 217, pl. XXXI.5.Karageorghis, Vassos. 1991. "La vie quotidienne a Chypre." Cypriote terracottas : proceedings of the First International Conference of Cypriote Studies, Brussels-Liège-Amsterdam, 29 May-1 June, 1989 / organized by the "Groupe de Contact interuniversitaire d'études chypriotes", F.N.R.S./N.F.W.O. (Belgium), Frieda Vandenabeele and Robert Laffineur, eds. p. 167, Brussels-Liège: Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis.Karageorghis, Vassos. 1995. The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus, Vol. 4. no. II(iv)2, p. 122, pl. LXXIII.2, Nicosia: Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 88, pp. 54, 255, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.