U17

Cypriot Iron Age pottery head

The head from a buff pottery votive figure with applied and hand-modelled features.

Cyprus, early to mid 1st Millennium BC

Fragment as shown.

Size: 5.7 x 3.3 cms.

Ex. collection: Ken Tullett, Dorset, UK; acquired 1970's/1980's. This item is part of a collection of several hundred antiquities accumulated over 50 years in London and the South Coast. Mr. Tullett frequently authenticated his purchases with the British Museum and kept notes on many items detailing where they were bought; where such references are available we will include details with the item when sold.