Polis Chrysochous · Cyprus · Twenty Years of Excavation
The figurine represents a woman wearing an elaborate coiffure, nose ring, multiple
earrings and a necklace elaborated with black paint. Before deposit in the bothros
(sacred repository) the head was detached from its body. The latter, in contrast
to the expressive head, was rudimentary in shape and proportionately very small.
From the bothros of the sanctuary on the plateau called Peristeries, sector
BD7.
Princeton University Excavations:
R11662/TC 4681
Cypro-Archaic II (Sixth century B.C.)
Publication:
N. Serwint, Acta Cypria, III (Jonsered 1993) 400-401, figs. 39-40