Cypriot Earthenware Figurine
Cypro-Archaic (700-475BC). Height 8cm, length 11.5cm.
A figurine depicting two male figures made from pinkish clay and decorated in matte red and black paint.. One man grasps the other around the waist, while the second appears to be holding a grinding stone in a grinder. The first figure wears a conical headdress and has prominent ears and nose. A conical feature on the back retains traces of black and red paint. Black paint remains on the headdress, eyes, eyebrows, and beard. A red band encircles the forehead, with red lines on the arms. Traces of red paint survive on the grinding stone and black paint on the grinder.
The location and find date of the object is not recorded. It has been suggested that it may have come from Amathus.
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 1748) joining objects from the SCE in the wider Cyprus collection.