Seated bird figurine - image 1

Archaic II

Seated bird figurine

The figurine is handmade and hollow. Its wings are closed, it has pellet ears, and very short stumps below the breast for legs. H. 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm)

Date

600 - 480 BC

Accession No.

74.57.14

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

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. LXXVI.698, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Karageorghis, Vassos. 1996. "The Cypro-archaic period monsters, animals and miscellanea." The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus, Vol. 6. no. S.c.40, p. 54, pl. XXXII.7, Nicosia: Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 254, pp. 147-48, 260, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.