Cypriot Base-Ring Earthenware Figurine
Cypro-Archaic I-II (700–475 BC). Height 13.6cm, Width 5.2cm.
A figurine made from light grey clay using the ”Snow-man technique”. It has a splaying base and a tubular body with raised arms and prominent ears and a turban on its head. Red paint was used to decorate the turban, ears and bands across the hip. Black paint was used to decorate the eyes and chest.
The location and find date of the object is not recorded. It has been suggested that it may have come from Idalion or Episkopi.
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 1741) joining objects from the SCE in the wider Cyprus collection.