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Terracotta statuette : UAS 1536
(Object)
Persons
Sjöqvist, Erik
, 1903-1975
(researcher)
Origin
Ajia Irini
, Cyprus, Cypro-Archaic I-II (c. 750-475 BC)
Other years/dates
Excavation date:
1929
Acquisition date:
1934
Inventory date:
May 2017
Physical description
Terracotta. Body in oval section; flattened breast; sloping shoulders; concave neck; ovoid head; chin with triangular, rounded beard; mouth with thick lips; nose with prominent, curved tip; leaf-shaped eyes with raised lids and ridged eyebrows; painted iris; roughly modelled ears; painted hair; sloping forehead; helmet with straight, closed spike and upturned cheek-pieces; vertical arms; left hand closed holding now missing object; right arm vertical; isolinear feet with modelled toes, wearing sandals with straps. Dressed in chiton with elbow sleeves; borders of relief strips around neck and along sides of arms. Chiton ends slightly above the feet. Ears and lips painted red; black hair, eyebrows, lids, iris, moustache, and beard; traces of black on chiton. Stands on a roughly square base tablet. Two pierced holes on breast; back-hole; feet and lower arms are separately put in. Head broken at neck; body broken in pieces; base tablet repaired with gypsum. Brown clay; light slip; 73.3
(height/length)
cm
Material:
ceramics:
Technique:
handmade
Format:
Non digital + Digital, reformatted digital
Abstract
Found at the temple-site during the excavations at Ajia Irini, which began in November, 1929. The sanctuary was in use from Late Cypriot III to Cypro-Archaic II, with a poor revival in the first century BC. The statuette belongs to the Cypro-Archaic sanctuary.
Notes
Exhibitions:
"TREASURES FROM THE COLLECTIONS" aug. 2015- aug. 2017
Literature
SCE II, Ajia Irini 1389.
Related records in Alvin
Host:
Ajia Irini
Host:
Svenska Cypernexpeditionen : 1927-1931
Host:
Antiksamlingen i Uppsala
See also:
Antiksamlingen : Utställning 1950-talet
See also:
Antiksamlingen : Utställning 1975
Object type
Figurine
Sculpture
Subject, topics
Terrakotta
(sao)
Subject, places
Ajia Irini
Availability
Not on display
Location
Museum Gustavianum, historic collections
Akademigatan 3
753 10 Uppsala
16
Identifiers (general)
urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-116477
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
UAS 1536
(Inventory number)
A.I. 1389
(Old inventory number)
alvin-record:116477
(alvin)
Licensing of the work
Public Domain Mark (No Known Copyright)
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