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Cypriot terracotta female figure

Cypriot workshop-0525/-0500

Benaki Museum of Greek Civilization

Benaki Museum of Greek Civilization
Athens, Greece

Terracotta female figure, wearing a peplos, sacerdotal belt and triple necklace, and holding a lyre. The piece belongs to a wider class of figurines that probably represent priestesses and have been found in Cyprus, Rhodes and Samos. From Cyprus, Cypro-Archaic II period, late 6th c. BC. H. 0,297 m. Gift of Stavros Vasiliadis. (ΓΕ 32533)

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