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Lot 2416
Two Early Cypriot Terracotta Figures
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
This lot from the Cyprus Museum of Jacksonville, NC is accompanied by two documents demonstrating that the collection was acquired legally with the full knowledge of the Cypriot Government.

The first document, a one page official message dated January 1990 and signed by Cypriot President George Vassiliou, praises the North Carolina museum and endorses its cultural and historic mission.

The second document is a notarized affidavit signed by the museum's director. It declares that all of the museum's antiquities were acquired legally with the full knowledge of the Cypriot Government and that there were documented visits to the museum by Cypriot dignitaries.

Two Early Cypriot Terracotta Figures, the first a Middle Bronze Age woman with an outstretched arm, on modern white plaster base; the second also female, possible Geometric period, circa 1000 B.C.

Tallest 5.5 in. overall

A Single-Owner Collection of Cypriot History & Culture from The Cyprus Museum of Jacksonville, North Carolina

Both broken and re-assembled.