Terracotta statuette of woman playing a tympanon

Terracotta statuette of woman playing a tympanon

Description:

The figurine is mold-made and hollow. The back is mold-made, but has little detail. She supports an upright tympanon from beneath in her left hand and strikes it with the spread fingers of her right hand.


h. 7 9/16 in. (19.2 cm)

Period:

Hellenistic

Date:

199 - 1 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

Said to be from Kythrea, Cyprus

References:

Strahan, Edward. 1881. "Greek Terra-Cottas from Tanagra and Elsewhere." Scribner's Monthly, 21(5). p. 922, fig. 9.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. VII.50, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2216, p. 357-58, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 380, pp. 225-26, 264, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.1696