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Terracotta statuette of a seated woman playing a kithera, Terracotta, Cypriot

Terracotta statuette of a seated woman playing a kithera

Period:
Late Hellenistic
Date:
2nd–1st century B.C.
Culture:
Cypriot
Medium:
Terracotta; mold-made and hand-made
Dimensions:
h. 5 7/16 in. (13.8 cm)
Classification:
Terracottas
Credit Line:
The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Accession Number:
74.51.1673
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171
The figurine is mold-made and hollow. She sits with her legs nearly frontal but her head and torso turned toward the kithara, which is propped on the seat at her left side.
Said to be from Kition or the Salt Lake near Larnaca, Cyprus

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. XXXIV.283, 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. 204, p. 19, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Winter, Franz. 1903. Die antiken terra-cotten im auftrag des Archäologischen instituts des Deutschen reichs: Die Typen der figürlichen Terrakotten, Vol. 3(2). p. 138, Stuttgart: Deutsches Archaologisches Institut.

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2229, p. 357, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 440, p. 273, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 381, pp. 226, 264, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Timelines
The Eastern Mediterranean, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D.

The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Terracottas
Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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