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Mask

(CYPRUS)
Mask
 Iron Age, Cypro-Geometric III 900 BCE-750 BCE

Medium
earthenware

Measurements
9.1 × 8.8 × 4.6 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr P. Chaldjian, 1996

Reproduction requests

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
(Cyprus)

Accession Number
1996.471

Department
Antiquities

Physical description
Small concave mask of the upper part of a human face with prominent nose, eyebrows and ears and with two circular protruberances on the forehead (one above the other), hand-modelled and pierced at the eyes, at the top and below each ear, and the light buff clay painted red for the flesh with hair, eyebrows and moustache in black.

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