Archaic II

Model of a cart with a human figure

The figurine is handmade. The cart has low sides, a thick tubular socket for the pole, and wheels with painted spokes. The occupant of the cart is a reclining male figure wearing a long robe. H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)

Classification

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

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Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

From CyprusSaid to be from a tomb at Alambra

References

Doell, Johannes. 1873. Die Sammlung Cesnola. no. 941, p. 62, pl. XIV.16, St. Petersburg: L’Académie Impérial des Sciences.Colonna-Ceccaldi, Georges. 1882. Monuments Antiques de Chypre, de Syrie et d'Égypte. p. 134, fig. 6, 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.112, 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. 619, p. 44, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2113, p. 346, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1933. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 5th ed. pp. 115, 117, fig. 139, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1941. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 6th ed. pp. 115, 117, fig. 139, 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. TM3, pp. 204, 209, 212, 217, pl. XXXI.7.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)3, p. 122, pl. LXXIII.3, Nicosia: Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 87, pp. 54, 255, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Identifiers

Accession no.: 74.51.1795, Metropolitan Museum of Art
In catalogues: Doell 1873, no. 941
Myres 1914, no. 2113
Karageorghis 2016, no. 87

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