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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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Plate XXVIII

224. Red terra cotta. Height, 6% inches. Found in a tomb at Morfu.

Rude bearded figure with cylindrical body; arms pendent, little more than stumps.
Head-dress a semi-cincture, with lappets falling behind the ears upon the shoulders.

225. Gray terra cotta. Height, 9^ inches. Found in a tomb at Kiti (Citium).

Rudely formed bearded figure, with cylindrical body, flattened out at the very wide shoul-
ders, from which the arms are rudely indicated as pendent against the body. Long nose, broken
at the end ; ears misplaced at top and back of head ; very high pointed cap, with lappets hanging
to the shoulders.

226. Red terra cotta, exterior now grayish. Height, 6% inches. Found in a tomb at
Alambra.

Rude figure, almost exactly like No. 224, except that the head has a pointed cap with no
lappets ; the ears are set farther back, and the base flares a little more.

227. Red terra cotta. Height, 6 inches. Found in tomb at Kuklia (Palaeo Paphos).
Draped Aphrodite, in high relief on a ground of same material. Surface much defaced,

and details rather difficult. Close-fitting head-dress, from beneath which thick tresses fall upon
the shoulders in front. Slight traces of a peplos, grasped in the hands at ends of the pendent
arms ; doubtful traces of necklace ; dress, a diploi's and chiton ; but below the former and over
the latter droop concentric loops or folds, as if a falling fold of the chiton or else a part
of the peplos hanging between the two hands. Lower part of chiton in plaits, but smooth
at bottom.

228. Red terra cotta, exterior now grayish. Height, 5A inches. Found in a tomb at
Palaeo Limassol, or Amathus.

Bearded Aphrodite; in close-fitting thin chiton, that falls nearly to the ankles, and
displays the whole figure. Hair and beard in red and brown lines ; the other features in red
 
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