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Mask
Iron Age, Cypro-Geometric III 900 BCE-750 BCE

Medium
earthenware
Measurements
9.1 × 8.8 × 4.6 cm
Place/s of Execution
(Cyprus)
Accession Number
1996.471
Department
Antiquities
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr P. Chaldjian, 1996
Gallery location
Not on display
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.