Limestone Draped Youth Figurine, Archaic II Cypriot statue
Limestone Draped Youth Figurine, Archaic II Cypriot, c. 600–560 BC. British Museum, 1888,0601.32.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Archaic II

Limestone Draped Youth Figurine

Dark grey limestone figure of a youth. Draped youth sitting on a high-backed throne with arm-rests just about indicated and a footstool. His face is worn; his cheekbones are broad and portrusive, the chin pronounced. He is wearing a Cypriot conical cap with lappets and a button-like edge. Underneath the hair is falling in a broad mass with a pouch-like edge down to the shoulders. He is wearing a long wide chiton and an over-garment covering both shoulders and crossing from the left shoulder to the right knee, the under-garment reaching down to the bare feet. The right hand, wrapped in the cloak, is clenched in front of the breast, the left is resting on the arm-rest with the fingers hanging loosely. His body is slender with broad shoulders; the arms are very long with slender forearms and small hands; apart from the head the figure is worked rather flat with little depth. The left top of the throne is missing; the sides and back are flat, neither carefully smoothed nor straightened. Dimensions: Height: 8.70 centimetres Object Type: figure Series: Nick Type 1 (Sub group 1.6)

Classification

Object type
Stone sculpture
Material
StoneLimestone
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
Date
600 - 560 BC
Place of production
probablyCyprus
Findspot
Palaepaphos

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Provenance

  • Sanctuary of Aphrodite (Naukratis)

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Accession no.
1888,0601.32, British Museum · Museum record

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