Figurine of a person carrying an animal
Figurines like these were very popular in Iron Age Cyprus. They were left by worshippers at temples to show people undertaking votive acts. This person is carrying an animal to be sacrificed.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 31/1918/93
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Cobham, Claude Delaval
- Material
- potteryred warepigment
- Common Name
- figurine of a person carrying an animal
- Simple Name
- figurine
- Period Classification
- Cypriot Archaic - 750-500 BC
