Standing female lyre player - image 1

Archaic II

Standing female lyre player

The solid figurine was made from a worn mold and crudely smoothed. Her feet are missing. She holds a lyre in her left hand and gives the semblance of playing it with her right. H. 6 9/16 in. (16.7 cm)

Date

600 - 480 BC

Accession No.

74.51.1672

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From CyprusSaid to be from a tomb at Amathus

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. V.37, 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. 89, p. 8, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2255, p. 358, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Monloup, Thérèse. 1994. Les terres cuites classiques: un sanctuaire de la grande déesse. Salamine de Chypre., Vol. 14. p. 109, n. 6, Paris: Diffusion de Boccard.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 195, pp. 115-16, 258-59, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.