Woman with Tympanon

Woman with Tympanon

Description:

Woman with a tympanon statuette of a standing human figure that makes a tympanone.Your gender is not easy to determine, but probably female.Long, cylindrical body made on the pane, which becomes too wider downwards.The head shaped in a model is attached to the body with a cone.The facial features are carefully reproduced.Berry eyebrows and eyebrows.Short hair curls on both sides of the face, hair painted black, flat back of the head.Black painting on hair and eyes, weak red traces on the face.Both arms are angled;The left hand holds and the right hits the disc -shaped tympanone.Traces of black ribbons along the sides of the body.Air hole on the back of the head.Bernhard-Walcher and others, the Cypricer Antique Collection in the KHM.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna 1999 (V. Karageghis)


H. 19,8 cm

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

700 - 600 BC

Collection:

Vienna Museum

Provenance:

Ashmolean Museum Oxford;From the excavations by John L. Myres 1894;1905 gift

Accession Number:

Antikensammlung, V 1989