Figurine of a female head
This is part of pottery figurine of a woman or goddess which was found ‘among debris near Larnica, Cyprus, 1867’. Figurines were very popular votive items in the ancient world and were left as offerings in temples of placed in shrines in the home.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- A505
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- White, C.B., Rear-Admiral
- Material
- ceramic
- Common Name
- figurine of a female head
- Simple Name
- figurine
- Period Classification
- Cypriot Classical - 500-325 BC
- Production Year Low
- -300
- Production Year High
- -200
