Painted Terracotta Dog Figurine, Archaic I Cypriot statue

Archaic I

Painted Terracotta Dog Figurine

Painted terracotta figurine of a dog playing with a ball; he is stretched out with the ball between its paws, his legs underneath his body; long face with bulging eyes; tail broken but originally stretched alongside his back right-hand leg; made of coarse buff clay, decorated with black and red-purple paint: ladder patterns on the back and legs, eyes circled in black, ears lined with red, the ball and snout are also red; ears chipped, paint worn all over. Dimensions: Height: 4 centimetres; Length: 6.90 centimetres Object Type: figure Techniques: painted

Classification

Decoration
Painted
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
Date
750 - 500 BC
Findspot
Amathus

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Accession No.

1894,1101.524

Collection

Provenance

  • Amathus

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