Terracotta figure, lyre playing female votary

Unknown (Cypriot)


Item type:
sculpture
Technique / Medium:
terracotta
Place of creation:
Cyprus

    Item location

  • Cantor Arts Center (Stanford University)
    Stanford Family Collection[Museum inv. no.: JLS.382]Purchased by Leland Stanford, Sr. from the Metropolitan Museum of Art through Luigi Palma di Cesnola in 1884; excavated by Cesnola on Cyprus, 1865–76.

Description

A female Cypriot votary figure playing a lyre.

Iconclass

12E75
Greek religion - other ritual objects or means

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Davis, John Rogers, and T. B. L. Webster. Cesnola terracottas in the Stanford University Museum. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology, vol. 16 (Lund, 1964) 19, no. 381.

RIdIM record id

5283