Faucet

Hahn among the animal votives preferred in Cyprus are also chickens and roosters.The small limestone sculpture from Amathus shows a tap with superiors sitting on a base, the head uphill and put on the tail feathers.The plumage is red and black striped.Remnants red painting are preserved on the beak and comb;Black with the eyes and nostrils.Chickens only reached the 8th century BCBC from the Orient to Cyprus and Greece;Your representations have been detectable in art since then.In the 5th century at the latest, they were part of the common animal population of rural estates.They were assigned to combative deities such as Ares and Athena as holy animals.In the image art of the 6th and 5th centuries, the rooster, which was praised for his courage and fearfulness, often meets as a symbol of male virtue.Bernhard-Walcher u.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna: 1999

H. 10 cm, L. 10,9 cm

Classical

Antikensammlung, I 637