Cypriot Terracotta Musician in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Title: Terracotta musician

Medium; Technique: Terracotta; mold-made

Culture: Cypriot

Period: Cypro-Archaic II

Date: ca. 600–480 B.C.

Dimensions: H. 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm)

Classification: Terracottas

Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76

Accession Number: 74.51.1670

On View

Description:

The complex dress and amount of jewelry suggest that this figure may be a priestess of the Great Goddess of Cyprus. She holds a lyre in her left hand

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