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Mycenaean, c.1400-1300 BC
Height: 9.5 cm
Provenance: Collection of L. Timmermans, The Netherlands, acquired at Kunstzalen Vecht Amsterdam 19 September 1991
Of columnar form, the figure stands with her arms raised wearing a long dress flaring at the feet, the skirt painted with wide-spaced brown vertical stripes running from an encircling belt, vertical slightly wavy lines decorate the flattened body with breasts in relief, a narrow line of paint also outlining the arms and dashed horizontal lines running down the applied spine. She wears a polos on her pinched head, the top hollowed, a line of paint runs down the nose and simple dots indicate the eyes.
Condition: Intact
Literature: For examples of both Psi and Phi idols see Roland Hampe and Erika Simon with a foreword by John Boardman, 'The Birth of Greek Art' (London, 1981) pp. 143 & 145, fig. 217.
Mycenaean, c.1400-1300 BC
Height: 9.5 cm
Provenance: Collection of L. Timmermans, The Netherlands, acquired at Kunstzalen Vecht Amsterdam 19 September 1991
Of columnar form, the figure stands with her arms raised wearing a long dress flaring at the feet, the skirt painted with wide-spaced brown vertical stripes running from an encircling belt, vertical slightly wavy lines decorate the flattened body with breasts in relief, a narrow line of paint also outlining the arms and dashed horizontal lines running down the applied spine. She wears a polos on her pinched head, the top hollowed, a line of paint runs down the nose and simple dots indicate the eyes.
Condition: Intact
Literature: For examples of both Psi and Phi idols see Roland Hampe and Erika Simon with a foreword by John Boardman, 'The Birth of Greek Art' (London, 1981) pp. 143 & 145, fig. 217.