Model Figurine
MS156
Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery
From: Cyprus | Amathus
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
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Object Number
MS156
Current Location
Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display
Culture
Cypriot
Provenience
Cyprus | Amathus
Date Made
799-500 BCE
Section
Mediterranean
Materials
Terracotta
Iconography
Shrine
Description
Terracotta shrine.
Height
8.1 cm
Width
5.5 cm
Depth
4 cm
Credit Line
Purchased from Max Ohnefalsch-Richter, 1895
Other Number
256 - Collector Number
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
Karageorghis, Vassos. The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus V: The Cypro-Archaic Period Small Female Figurines . A.G. Leventis Foundation, 1998. Page/Fig./Plate: 61
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Betancourt, Philip P. "An Aeolic Shrine in Philadelphia." 75, no. 4. (1971): 427-428. See: pp. 427-428
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Luce, Stephen B. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section . Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1921. See: p. 44-45, no. 55
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Ohnefalsch-Richter, Max H. Kypros, the Bible and Homer . London: Asher & Co., 1893. See: pp. 190, 235, 251-252; pl. 199
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