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A CYPRIOT BICHROME WARE TERRACOTTA BEARDED 'SNOWMAN' FIGURE, with cylindrical body flaring out at the base, decorated around the lower body with encircling black lines and a band of umber, pierced at one side, the other side damaged, wearing pointed headdress pierced through for suspension, arms held out in front, hands missing; and a model of a dog, with short raised tail, decorated with red and black painted bands over body and down the legs, black rings around eyes, right ear chipped, lower right foreleg restored -- 5.5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) and 3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) high respectively, Iron Age, early 1st Millennium B.C. (2)

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A CYPRIOT BICHROME WARE TERRACOTTA BEARDED 'SNOWMAN' FIGURE, with cylindrical body flaring out at the base, decorated around the lower body with encircling black lines and a band of umber, pierced at one side, the other side damaged, wearing pointed headdress pierced through for suspension, arms held out in front, hands missing; and a model of a dog, with short raised tail, decorated with red and black painted bands over body and down the legs, black rings around eyes, right ear chipped, lower right foreleg restored -- 5.5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) and 3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) high respectively, Iron Age, early 1st Millennium B.C. (2)

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Item 1: cf. D. Morris, The Art of Ancient Cyprus, Oxford, 1985, p. 179, pl. 206, for similar figure with arms intact holding a tambourine or food offering to his chest.

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