Base Ring Female Figurine

Base Ring Female Figurine

Description:

Head and neck of hollow terracotta female figurine in Base Ring II ware; handmade; flat head and triangular face; pellet eyes surrounded by rings of clay; small projecting ears of applied clay shaped into flap-like curves; small pointed nose; decorated with bands of black and red matt paint around the neck; solid black paint on top and back of head representing hair; continuous eyebrow line and ringlets on temples also in black paint; orange-pink clay with buff slip burnised or shaved with a knife.


Dimensions: Height: 5 centimetres


Object Type: figure


Ware: Base Ring Ware


Techniques: applied; painted; burnished; shaved

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1450 - 1100 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Episkopi-Bamboula

Accession Number:

1896,0201.218