Cypriote terracotta figurine of dancers and flutist - 3D model
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Cypriote terracotta figurine portraying 3 dancers dancing around a flutist, who is standing in the center, wearing a conical cap. The preserved head of the dancers is wearing a stephane, marked by red paint. Her mouth also has red paint, and the dancers all have red paint on their back. Black paint is preserved on their eyes, eyebrows, neck and sleeves. The plinth also has red and black paint.
The figurine is fragmented, and somewhat roughly made. It has a height of 10.4 cm.
It was found in the Archaic Layers in connection with the grand Archaic stairs in the Athana Lindia sanctuary on Rhodes, and was most likely dedicated as a votive offering to the goddess.
3D Model based on photogrammetry.
The background shows a reconstruction of the Archaic Athana Lindia sanctuary in Lindos on Rhodes.
The figurine is published in: C. Blinkenberg 1931. Lindos: Fouilles de l’Acropole 1902-1914 I, Les Petits Objects. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co. P. 478 no. 1955.
