Terracotta Female Votive Head

Terracotta Female Votive Head

Description:

Head of a votive terracotta female figure, with a moulded face and a fillet across the forehead. On top of the head are the remains of a wheel-made open pottery lamp, including the tip of the wick-rest and part of the pinched-in rim.


Dimensions: Height: 6.90 centimetres; Width: 4.10 centimetres


Object Type: lamp; votive figure


Techniques: wheel-made; mould-made

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 575 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Salamis (Cyprus) (?)

Kition (?)

Accession Number:

1881,0824.120