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CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
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A CYPRIOT LIMESTONE DANCING MAENAD
CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
The sinuous figure clad in a finely-pleated chiton and himation with swallow-tail folds along the edge, her body portrayed in an S-shape in movement, her head turned to her right, her left arm (missing above the elbow) raised, her right arm held across her waist, holding a krotalon (castanet) in her right hand, adorned with a bracelet, her hair arranged in snail-like curls across her forehead and falling in three long tresses along each shoulder, traces of red pigment preserved along her costume and lips; unworked at the back
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
The sinuous figure clad in a finely-pleated chiton and himation with swallow-tail folds along the edge, her body portrayed in an S-shape in movement, her head turned to her right, her left arm (missing above the elbow) raised, her right arm held across her waist, holding a krotalon (castanet) in her right hand, adorned with a bracelet, her hair arranged in snail-like curls across her forehead and falling in three long tresses along each shoulder, traces of red pigment preserved along her costume and lips; unworked at the back
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Thétis Foundation, Geneva; Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1998, lot 104.
Literature
J.-L. Zimmerman, Collection de la Fondation Thétis, Développements de l'art grec de la préhistoire à Rome, Geneva, 1987, no. 102.