Terracotta female figurine fragment - image 1

Archaic II

Terracotta female figurine fragment

The figurine has a mold-made face. The head, shoulders, and upper chest are preserved. She has large almond-shaped eyes, ridged eyelids and eyebrows, and smiling lips. H. 3 1/8 in. (8 cm)

Date

600 - 480 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2363

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • Said to be from Soli, Cyprus

References

  • Hall, Isaac H. 1885. "The Cypriot Inscriptions of the Cesnola Collection in New York." Journal of the American Oriental Society, 11: no. 26, p. 237.Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. no. 2, p. 150, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1899, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 198, pp. 117, 258-59, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.