Cypriot Earthenware Sculpture
Cypro-Archaic I-II (700–475 BC). Height 10.1cm, width 4.3cm.
A mould-made sculpture of a figure. It has a flat with arms along the side. The face is oval in shape with a prominent nose. The figure is wearing veil which falls down on the sides and back of the head.
The location and find date of the object is not recorded. It has been suggested that it may have come from Arsos, Idalion or Amathus.
The sculpture 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 17946:0097) joining objects from the SCE in the wider Cyprus collection.