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Cesnola, Luigi Palma di [Editor]
A descriptive atlas of the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Band 1) — New York, 1885

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PLATE LXVII. CONTINUED.

is marked by narrow, vertical lines. The himation, slightly modelled, is gathered round
the body, and thrown over the left shoulder. A low tiara encircles the head, with two
rows of curls in front. The lower portion of the statuette, from above the knees, is
wanting. Red color on the borders of the drapery.

445. Statuette, of calcareous stone. Height, 2 feet \ inch. Found in the temple (Golgoi).
Female figure, holding a dove by the wings with the right hand. The left arm

hangs by the side, and the left leg is advanced. She wears a chiton, with sleeves reaching
to the elbows, and over it a himation, wrapped round the body and thrown over the
left shoulder, with vertical folds down the left side. Its cross-folds of, like the vertical
folds of the chiton, are rendered by uniformly parallel grooves. A band round the head,
with two rows of projecting curls in front. The surface is somewhat worn and mutilated.
Feet wanting.

446. Statuette, of calcareous stone. Height, 4 feet ioi inches. Found in the temple
(Golgoi).

Female figure (priestess?), holding a branch in the right hand; the portion below
the waist is wanting. The arms hang down by the sides, but are free from the body.
She wears a chiton, with short sleeves, and a himation passing over the left shoulder
and falling in flat archaic folds on the left side; around the head a diadem, with arrow-
shaped ornaments on either side of a central band. The hair falls down the back, and
in three long tresses in front of the shoulders. Spiral armlets on the arms. The nose
and chin are mutilated, and the left armlet is broken on the outside. Execution very
careful and refined.

447. Statuette, of calcareous stone. Height, 1 foot n| inches. Found in the
temple (Golgoi).

Figure, with forearms and feet wanting; wears chiton and himation, with zigzag
folds down the left side, and across the breast. The left leg is advanced. Around the
head a Stephanos, with upright, leaf-shaped ornaments, below which curls are vertically
arranged in bands around the forehead. The nose is broken.
 
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