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White Painted Terracotta Figurine, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot statue
White Painted Terracotta Figurine, Middle Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 1800–1650 BC. British Museum, 1998,0122.1.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Middle Bronze Age III

White Painted Terracotta Figurine

Handmade terracotta figurine of a naked woman in White Painted ware; flat, plank-shaped body with undulating sides, schematically indicating the hips, arms, shoulders and head; large beak nose flanked by eyes rendered as painted dots; large ears, each perforated three times for suspending jewellery; arms are held at the navel beneath the naked breasts; flat base with no feet indicated; buff clay decorated in matt black paint: parallel lines enclosing zig-zags in registers along the front of the body, groups of parallel lines down the back, bands on the top of the head, along with the curved profile, may indicate some form of headdress. Dimensions: Width: 2.30 - 3.30 centimetres; Height: 15 centimetres Object Type: figurine Ware: White Painted Ware Techniques: handmade; pierced; painted

Classification

Object type
Terracotta figurine
Ware
White Painted ware (Bronze Age)
Decoration
Painted
Material
Clay
Period
probablyBronze AgeMiddle Cypriot (Middle Bronze Age)
Date
1800 - 1650 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

Identifiers

Accession no.
1998,0122.1, British Museum · Museum record

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