
Fragment of a votive figure carrying a bird
Mouldmade head on a wheel-thrown body, earthenware (terracotta) decorated with polychrome slip paint 12.5 cm
Classification
- Object type
- Terracotta figurine
- Decoration techniques
- Moulded, PaintedPainted in several colours
- Motifs
- Bird, Human figure
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 6 - 6 BC
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