Picrolite figure
Unknown
ca. 3900–2500 BCE · Picrolite · Greek and Roman Art
The form and material are characteristic of figures from the Chalcolithic (literally "copper-stone") period on Cyprus. These works, found mainly in graves, may have been deposited as offerings or worn as pendants.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 3900–2500 BCE
- Medium
- Picrolite
- Culture
- Cypriot
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1951
