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A Cypriot Limestone Votive Figure of a Musician, 2nd/3rd quarter of the 6th Century B.C.

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July 5, 01:07 PM GMT

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4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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A Cypriot Limestone Votive Figure of a Musician

2nd/3rd quarter of the 6th Century B.C.


standing with her feet on an integral narrow projecting base and holding a tambourine with both hands against her chest.

Height 43.2 cm.

General Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832-1904), said to have been found at the sanctuary of Golgoi-Ayios Phothios
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acquired from the above between 1874-1876 (deaccessioned and sold, probably in 1928)
Luigi Palma di Cesnola, A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, Boston, vol. 1, pl. XXXII, no. 207
J. Ferron, "Les statuettes au tympanon des hypogées puniques," Antiquités africaines, vol. 3, 1969, p. 21, note 4
For a related example with the same provenance in the Metropolitan Museum of Art see A. Hermary and J. R. Mertens, The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Stone Sculpture, 2013, p. 186, no. 231 (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/242053).

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