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Title:Terracotta statuette of a woman
Period:Middle Cypriot III–Late Cypriot I
Date:ca. 1725–1450 BCE
Culture:Cypriot
Medium:Terracotta; hand-made
Dimensions:H. 10 7/16 in. (26.49 cm)
Classification:Terracottas
Credit Line:The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Object Number:74.51.1544
Said to be from a rock-cut tomb at Alambra
Doell, Johannes. 1873. Die Sammlung Cesnola. no. 839, p. 59, pl. XIV.8, 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.12, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1895. The Terracottas and Pottery of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in Halls 4 and 15. no. 9, p. 2, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2004, p. 333–34, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Åström, Lena. 1972. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: The Late Cypriote Bronze Age: Other Arts and Crafts, Vol. 4 Pt. 1D. fig. 16.4, Lund: The Swedish Cyprus Expedition.
Karageorghis, Vassos. 1976. The Civilization of Prehistoric Cyprus. no. 103, p. 131, 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. 65, 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. 11, pp. 13–14, pl. IV.
Karageorghis, Vassos. 1991. The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus, Vol. 1. no. Ea.11, p. 178–79, pl. CXL.9, Nicosia: Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis.
Barnes, Lorna and Ellen Salzman. 1998. "Preliminary Investigations of Surface Decoration on a Group of Ancient Terracottas from Cyprus." Glass, Ceramics and Related Materials : ICOM Committee for Conservation Glass, Ceramics, and Related Materials Working Group, & Institute of Arts and Design Department of Conservation Studies, Alice B. Paterakis, ed. pp. 76–77, fig. 1, Vantaa, Finland: EVTEK Institute of Art and Design, Dept. of Conservation Studies.
Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 9, pp. 22–23, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 265, pp. 228, 458, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Stylianou, Andreas and Patrick Schollmeyer. 2007. "Der Sarkophag aus Golgoi." Dynastensarkophage mit szenischen Reliefs aus Byblos und Zypern: Der Sarkophag aus Amathous als Beispiel kontaktinduzierten Wandels, 2. p. 118, n. 924, Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern.
Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 7, pp. 19–20, 252, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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