Cypriot Earthenware Figurine
Cypro-Archaic II – Cypro-Classical I (600-400BC). Height 8.8cm, width 5.3cm.
The head of a male figurine with an ovoid face, small mouth and almond-shaped eyes. It is made from a pinkish buff clay and decorated with matt red, reddish brown and black paint. The hair, eyes and eye-brows are painted black, the face in brown brown face and the lips red.
The location and find date of the object is not recorded. It has been suggested that it may have come from Kition or Salines.
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 1746) joining objects from the SCE in the wider Cyprus collection.