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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 2) — New York, 1894

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shoulders. Body conical and cylindrical, formed on a wheel. Very large, compressed nose ;
eyes of brown color. Decoration, red and brown bands.

32. Red terra cotta. Height, 6{i inches. Found in a tomb at Dali.

Woman playing a harp (cithara). Body cylindrical, made on a wheel. Hair, and also
vertical and horizontal stripes indicating dress, colored dark brown. Top of the cithara, and the
arms, broken, and reset.

33. Gray terra cotta. Height, 2% inches. Found in a tomb at Dali.

Fragment of figure with cylindrical body, playing the double flute. Nose large ; ears
behind the head, large. Surface worn. Left hand, and part of the flute held in it, broken away.

34. Gray terra cotta. Height, 4% inches. Found in a tomb at Dali.

Man playing harp (cithara). Body rudely cylindrical; perhaps turned on a wheel, and
bent. Head-dress as in No. 18. Traces of red and brown decoration.

35. Red terra cotta. Height, 4 inches. Found at Kuklia, the ancient Palaeo Paphos.
Woman playing the double flute, the mouth-straps passing above and about her head.

Body rudely cylindrical, apparently not made on a wheel. (A better example of the mouth-strap
is seen in another figurine of this general style, No. 165a of the Cesnola collection of terra
cottas.)

36. Gray terra cotta. Height, 4% inches. Found at Palaeo Limassol, near the ancient
Amathus.

Woman playing the double flute. Conical head-dress, colored red, from which hangs a
cape, under which her tresses fall forwards on the shoulders. The folds, laps, and wrinkles of
the dress (diplo'fs and chiton) are plainly and not inartistically indicated.

37. Gray terra cotta. Height, 6^ inches. Found in a tomb at Palaeo Limassol, at ot
near the ancient Amathus.

Woman playing the lyre. Upper garment (peplos) worn over the head, like a hood,
passing down over the left arm and festooned up at the lyre. Folds of the dress (chiton) well
indicated.
 
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