Figurine of a person playing a tambourine
Figurines like these were left by worshippers at temples to show people undertaking votive acts. This figurine is holding a musical instrument and represents a participant in a religious ceremony accompanying sacred dances.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 31/1918/92
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Cobham, Claude Delaval
- Material
- potteryred ware
- Common Name
- figurine of a person playing a tambourine
- Simple Name
- figurine
- Period Classification
- Cypriot Archaic - 750-500 BC
- Production Country
- Cyprus
