Cypriot Earthenware Figurine
Cypro-Archaic I-II (700–475 BC). Height 11.8cm.
A tall figurine with triangular legs painted red and black, a raised tail painted red, and pointed mane. It’s head has a flat nose with traces of black paint, big ears with traces of red paint. Five black lines encircle neck. It is made form a buff clay with a pinkish buff core and finished in matt buff slip and matt reddish lilac and black paint.
The location and find date of the object is not recorded.
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 1926. In 1982 it was deposited at the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (Inv. No.: SHM 17946:0100) joining objects from the SCE in the wider Cyprus collection.