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Woman with bird, Archaic I Cypriot statue
Woman with bird, Archaic I Cypriot, c. 700–600 BC. Vienna Museum, Antikensammlung, V 2006.© Kunsthistorisches Museum

Archaic I

Woman with bird

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

Classification

Object type
Terracotta figurine
Decoration
Painted
Motifs
Bird, Human figure
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
Date
700 - 600 BC
Place of production
Cyprus

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Collection

Vienna Museum

Provenance

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

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Antikensammlung, V 2006, Vienna Museum

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