• Clay head of female figurine



Clay head of female figurine
Clay head of female figurine

Clay head of female figurine

Π2181
Clay
Incomplete
Height: 10 cm.
Dictaean Cave (Cave of Psychro)
Late Bronze Age, Final Palatial - Postpalatial period. Late Minoan III period:
1400- 1070 BC έλεγχος:
Gallery:
XVII
Case:
174
Exhibition thematic unit:
Geometric - Archaic - Classical period (10th - 4th c. BC). The Sanctuaries. From Minoan cult to the amalgamation of religious beliefs
Sacred Caves
Description
Part of a fragmentary female head which may have formed part of a ritual vessel. It is half life-size. It is particularly carefully made, especially in the transitions between the curves and angles of the head, which are rendered smoothly and with naturalistic proportions. The facial features are also naturalistic, clearly rendered with great artistry and highlighted with reddish-brown and red paint. The work reflects the artistic choices of the Late Minoan period, as it is the product of an era of realism in anthropomorphic coroplastic, particularly in the faces of figurines, in contrast to the stylisation of the following Geometric period.
Bibliography:
Hogarth, D.G., “The Dictaean Cave.”, Annual of the British School at Athens 6 (1899-1900), 94-116. Boardman J., The Cretan Collection in Oxford: The Dictaean Cave and Iron Age Crete, Oxford, 1961, 60. Tyree E. L., Cretan Sacred Caves: Archaeological Evidence, Missouri, 1975, 256, pl. LIX.
Author:
S. P.


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