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Title: Cyprus Medieval Museum: Mortar (MM413, 1940/I-17/1 MMRR 34)
Start date: 400
End date: 499
Historical Period: Early Byzantine/Late Antique Period
Description: 

Curved handle of a mortar (?). Damaged nose and right side. Two big eyes, big mouth with a smile. Long hair rendered by grooved lines behind the left ear. Damaged right and back sides. Carved handle of mortar in shape of a human face. Hair rendered in the chip-carving style. Almond shaped eyes with pronounced eye balls of similar shape. Lips joined.
Provenance: Lefkonos street, Nicosia

Size: Height: 15.3 cm; Length: 13 cm
Place: Frourion Lemesou, Cyprus  
Languages: No linguistic content; Not applicable
Medium: marble (rock)
Project: BYZART Project  
Fond: OUC Department of Antiquities Republic of Cyprus  
Physical type: vessels (containers)
Material and technique: sculpting
relief (sculpture techniques)
Data provider: Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus  
License: All rights reserved
Rights holder: Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus  
Appears in Collections:BYZART

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