
Archaic I
Camp
Storing man The small limestone statuette represents a stored cecher: a beardless young man with a hunchbacking hairstyle rests, uphill, uphill, on a warehouse.He released his left arm on a pillow, the right hand lies on the dressed knees.The depicted carry a chitone (underneath) and above a coat that is wrapped around the abdomen and the left side of the body, as well as on the feet shoes.Remains of red painting are obtained on the pillow, the coat hem and on the shoes as well as on the lips and in the nostrils;The hair was painted black.Small limestone sculptures of stored cecher are votives in Cyprus in sanctuaries and as grave goods before the middle of the 6th century BC.BC known.Characteristic of the Cyprical examples that go back to oriental role models are the lying scheme with the knees stored on top of each other and the clothing with long chiton and coat.Bernhard-Walcher u.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna: 1999 L/H 8,8 × B 13,6 cm
Classification
- Object type
- Stone sculpture
- Decoration
- Painted
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 625 - 600 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
Accession No.
Antikensammlung, I 1610
Collection
Provenance
- Oestr.Museum Vienna;1890 Purchase of M., without judge;1940 takeover;1941 inventorized
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