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Title:Terracotta plank-shaped figurine
Period:Middle Cypriot I
Date:ca. 1900–1800 BCE
Culture:Cypriot
Medium:Terracotta; hand-made
Dimensions:H. 6 15/16 in. (17.6 cm)
Classification:Terracottas
Credit Line:The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Accession Number:74.51.1537
Said to be from a rock-cut tomb at Alambra
Doell, Johannes. 1873. Die Sammlung Cesnola. no. 837, p. 59, pl. XIV.2, St. Petersburg: L’Académie Impérial des Sciences.
Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1877. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations During Ten Years' Residence in That Island. p. 89, pl. VI, London: John Murray.
Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1894. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 2. pl. II.5, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1895. The Terracottas and Pottery of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in Halls 4 and 15. no. 5, p. 1, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2002, p. 333, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Karageorghis, Vassos. 1976. The Civilization of Prehistoric Cyprus. no. 100, p. 130, Athens: Ekdotike Athenon.
Karageorghis, Jacqueline. 1977. La grande déesse de Chypre et son culte à travers l'iconographie de l'époque néolithique au VIème s.a.C.. p. 68, Lyon: Maison de l'Orient.
Orphanides, Andreas G. 1983. ""Bronze Age Anthropomorphic Figurines in the Cesnola Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Master's Diss.." Master's Diss. no. 4, p. 8, pl. III.
Karageorghis, Vassos. 1991. The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus, Vol. 1. no. Bj.16, p. 88, pl. LI.5, Nicosia: Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis.
Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 1, pp. 20–21, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 3, pp. 17, 252, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Bombardieri, Luca and Elisa Panero. 2021. Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations : exhibition catalog p. 138, fig. 4, London: DeArtcom.
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