Cypriot Tambourine Player

Cypriot Tambourine Player

Description:

Cypriot terracotta figure of woman(?) playing tambourine, wearing helmet and necklace, but otherwise naked. Handmade in primitive style with traces of painted red decoration on helmet. Broken at waist, missing body and legs. Pale buff fabric with fine white and black inclusions.


Dimensions: Height: 6.50 centimetres; Thickness: 3.60 centimetres; Width: 4 centimetres


Object Type: figure


Techniques: handmade; painted


Condition: fair (incomplete -upper part only)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

620 - 525 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Temple of Aphrodite (Naukratis)

Accession Number:

EA50123