Woman with bird

Woman with bird

Description:

Woman with a bird statuette of a standing human figure that holds a bird.Your gender is not easy to determine, but probably female.Cylindrical body made on the pane, which becomes wider in its lower part.The head shaped in a model is attached to the body with a cone.Small face with carefully reproduced facial features, short hair curls on both sides of the face.Air hole on the back of the head.Both arms are angled and hold a bird (a pigeon?) In front of the chest.Traces of black painting on bird, arms and body.A. Bernhard-Walcher and others, the Cypricer Ancient Collection in the KHM.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna 1999 (V. Karageghis)


H. 20,2 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 2006