- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Terractotta head. Large grooved almond shaped eyes. With a prominent chin and nose. [BH [OPS Move] 12/4/2017]
- Long description
- Pottery head. “Male head. Handmade, hollow. Large grooved, almond-shaped eyes, prominent chin and nose, groove for lips, smiling. Loop-shaped earring on lobe of right ear. Traces of red paint on right ear. Left ear damaged. Band around head largely detached. Hole at top of head.” [Description by Karageorghis, V., 2009, p. 88] [JFK 13/11/2009] From Conservation Card by Lorraine Rostant 12/06/1997 - Pottery head, pale pink clay with large inclusions, slightly more orange on right side from firing. Head with incised eyes and mouth. Hollow. [MJD 27/1/2009]
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Luigi Palma di Cesnola
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: 600-480 BC Archaeological period: Iron Age Cypro-Archaic II
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Terracotta Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: max 125 mm, Width: max 75 mm, Depth: max 83 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.39.14 Other numbers: Cypriot Archaeology 088 PR Cat other PR nos: 697 PR Cat other PR nos: 2691
- Associated publications
- Published under catalogue number 88 on page 88 in Karageorghis, V., (2009) Cypriote Art in the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. A.G. Leventis Foundation. [JFK 09/10/2009]
1884.39.14
Terractotta head. Large grooved almond shaped eyes. With a prominent chin and nose. [BH [OPS Move] 12/4/2017]
1884.39.14
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