Greek Terracotta Artefact Collection

CIRCA 5TH-3RD CENTURY B.C. AND LATER

2 - 5 1/8 in. (739 grams total, 5.1-13 cm).

Including terracotta statue heads, amphora handle with old inked inscription on label to verso, which reads: 'AMPHORA HANDLE / PICKED UP ON SEA / BED OFF EAST SIDE / PARAMALI POINT, CYPRUS / 31 AUGUST 1968.' and other items. [5, No Reserve]

Provenance

From a late Hampshire gentleman's collection, formed from the 1960s.

Literature

Cf. Karageorghis, V., Cipro, Crocevia del Mediterraneo Orientale, 1600-500 a.C. Milano, 2002, pp.207-208, figs.410, 413.

Footnotes

One of the terracotta heads belongs to a votive statue, which by its shape seems to belong to Demeter or to the priestess of the Mother Goddess venerated in the Sanctuary of Arsos (Cyprus). The other one, also votive, showing a high headgear, represents most probably a Phoenician divinity, or a Levantine head of a priest.

CONDITION

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LOT 0532