Cypriot Earthenware Sculpture
Cypro-Archaic I-II (700–475 BC). Height 8cm.
A figurine of an animal, possibly mythical with conical, convex body and a conical cavity underneath. It is made from a pinkish, buff coloured clay and finished in a matt buff clip. The figurine has a small tail and a tall neck ending in a small head with flat pellet ears. On either side of the body, below the neck small V-shaped wings.
The location and find date of the object is not recorded. It has been suggested that it may have come from Amathus or Kourion.
The figurine was given as a gift by L.Z. Pierides to the Crown Prince of Sweden Gustaf Adolf in 1925 and later by The Museum of National Antiquities (now the Historiska museet). In 1956 it was moved to the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (Inv. No.: SHM 17946:0098) joining objects from the SCE in the wider Cyprus collection.