Lot 17
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A CYPRIOT BICHROME WARE MUSICIAN
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A CYPRIOT BICHROME WARE MUSICIAN

CYPRO-ARCHAIC, 750-600 B.C.

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A CYPRIOT BICHROME WARE MUSICIAN
CYPRO-ARCHAIC, 750-600 B.C.
Of 'Snowman' type, holding a tambourine which is held against the chest, with bearded head tilted back, wearing conical headdress pierced with a suspension hole, the flaring tunic pierced on each side below probably for moveable legs (now missing), with black and red painted decoration
5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) high
Exhibited
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1985.
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
The Art of Ancient Cyprus, pp. 177-179, pl. 206.

Cf. V. Karageorghis, Ancient Art from Cyprus, The Cesnola Collection, New York, 2000, p. 162, pl. 264, for a similar male figure carrying an animal. It has been suggested that these figures carry ritual offerings and that the 'tambourine' shown above is in fact a food offering of a circular loaf.

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