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LOT 0523
Cypriot Terracotta Mask with Helmet
6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
2 in. (2 5/8 in.) (94 grams total, 50 mm (66 mm including stand)).
Modelled in the half-round with stylised facial features and wearing a large helmet; mounted on a custom-made display stand.
Provenancewith Hotel Drouot, Succession of Former collection Colonel W. Mutiaux, Paris, 5 September 1952, lot 66.
Ex collection of Eugène Muriaux (1846-1925?).
From the collection M.W., Paris, France, 1950-1970.
Ex collection of Françoise and Claude Bourelier.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. Moscati, S., I Fenici,Milano, 1988, p.356, for similar terracotta mask, from Amathus (Cyprus); p.366, for similar terracotta from Ibiza; cf. also Karageorghis, V., Cipro, crocevia del Mediterraneo Orientale, Milano, 2002, p. 206, fig.409.
FootnotesThe man's helmet is typically Phoenician-Cypriot. Therefore, it is possible to consider this terracotta as the portrait of a Cypriot warrior, with Greek and Phoenician elements. The artefact is part of ex-voto productions with Greek-Phoenician characteristics widespread throughout the Eastern Mediterranean.
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