Cypriot Earthenware Sculpture
Length 14.9cm, width 7.8cm, thickness 6.2cm.
A fragmentary piece of sculpture representing a left hand, probably originally holding something now lost. The inner layer is terracotta with a yellowish outer layer in a matt buff slip.
The location and find date of the object is not recorded.
The sculpture 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 1926. In 1982 it was deposited at the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (Inv. No.: SHM 17946:0096) joining objects from the SCE in the wider Cyprus collection.