Sculpture

64-28-69

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 64-28-69
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cypriot (uncertain)
Provenience Mediterranean
Date Made 499-400 BCE?
Section Mediterranean
Materials Limestone
Technique Carved
Iconography Woman
Description

Lower part of female statuette. Soft white limestone, somewhat wheathered. The back is flat and unworked. On the front are depicted the vertical folds of a garment reaching to the ankles and two pointed shoes protruding from the lower edges of the garment. The bottom is essenrtially flat with no treatment for attachment. Presumably the piece was inserted in a cutting.

Height 6.8 cm
Width 7.4 cm
Thickness 2.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of Virginia R. Grace, 1964

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