Cypriot Base-Ring Earthenware Figurine
Late Cypriot II (1450–1200 BC). Height 19cm.
A standing female figurine with her hands pressed to her stomach. It has has a flattened head with additions to the ears, nose, eyes and breasts. The figurine is incised at the waist, pubic area and thighs.
The location and find date of the object is not recorded. It has been suggested that it may have come from Ankastina, Dromolaxia, or Ayia Paraskevi.
The figurine was given as a gift by L.Z. Pierides to the Crown Prince of Sweden Gustaf Adolf in 1925 and later donated to the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. In 1982 it was part of a deposit to the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (Inv. No.: NM Ant 1740) joining objects from the SCE in the wider Cyprus collection.