Terracotta statuette of a seated woman playing a kithera

Terracotta statuette of a seated woman playing a kithera

Description:

The figurine is mold-made and hollow. She sits with her legs nearly frontal but her head and torso turned toward the kithara, which is propped on the seat at her left side.


h. 5 7/16 in. (13.8 cm)

Period:

Hellenistic

Date:

199 - 1 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

Said to be from Kition or the Salt Lake near Larnaca, Cyprus

References:

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. XXXIV.283, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1895. The Terracottas and Pottery of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in Halls 4 and 15. no. 204, p. 19, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Winter, Franz. 1903. Die antiken terra-cotten im auftrag des Archäologischen instituts des Deutschen reichs: Die Typen der figürlichen Terrakotten, Vol. 3(2). p. 138, Stuttgart: Deutsches Archaologisches Institut.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2229, p. 357, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 440, p. 273, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 381, pp. 226, 264, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.1673