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Painted Limestone Youth Statuette, Archaic II Cypriot
Painted Limestone Youth Statuette, Archaic II Cypriot, c. 650–550 BC. British Museum, 1863,0127.5.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Archaic II

Painted Limestone Youth Statuette

Painted limestone statuette of a youth. Draped youth wearing a chiton. The left arm is pressed to the side, the fingers clenched; the right holds a lotus-sceptre in front of the breast. The features are elongated; the eyes are very large. Narrow body, thick in section; broken off below the hips. Careless work; the back unfinished. Red paint on the lips. Dimensions: Height: 11.50 centimetres Object Type: statuette Techniques: painted

Classification

Object type
Stone sculpture
Decoration
Painted
Motif
Human figure
Material
StoneLimestone
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
Date
650 - 550 BC
Place of production
probablyCyprus

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Sanctuary of Athena (Kamiros)

Identifiers

Accession no.
1863,0127.5, British Museum · Museum record

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