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Salaminia (Cyprus) : the history, treasures, & antiquities of Salamis in the island of Cyprus (1882)

Cesnola, Alexander Palma di, 1837-, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · London : Trübner and Co. · leaf 307

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ang illustration (%. 206) shews an in-teresting statuette of a female, at full length, which maybe ascribed to Aphrodite, the Goddess, who, as I haveshewn before, was so universally and so pre-eminently asul)ject of the Cypriote cult. This figure is in the Phoe-nician or Assyrian style, resembling… … Fig. 200. Statuette. Teira-coita. Tlie hands appear to be holding the breasts, and the hairis plaited and bound with a fillet. On the neck, severalnecklaces are represented wdth pendants, one of which isapparently in the form of a man. A kind of fringed stolehangs below the upper garment in front…

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