Terracotta Deity Head With Turreted Crown
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1922
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. E E. De Lancey
notes: label: Notes
content: Female head, possibly Aphrodite, wearing ornate headress.
label: Notes
content: Face and headdress shape and ornamentation is similar to Seated Aphrodite from Larnaca, British Museum 80. (Hutton, Caroline Amy. Greek Terracotta Statuettes. The Macmillan Company, 1899, fig. 13, B. 176). (cf. M. Huish, Greek Terracotta Statuettes, London, 1900, p.55, fig.17, pl.18). Crown on pictured head (fig.17) almost identical as is hair. According to the author such figures represent goddesses, usually seated on decorated thrones, austerely clothed (but) in elaborate headdresses. He dates them to the 4th Cent BC or earlier. Reddish clay, usually unpainted, most are female.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cypriot (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 067750
label: USNM Number
content: A317534-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 6.3 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 3.8 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 3 cm