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Editors’ Page: Thousands of Cypriot Figurines

Would it hurt to exchange a few?

By Hershel Shanks

Some pretty rarefied books come across my desk. One that recently caught my eye is Volume 5 (B) of The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus.1 It is a beautifully produced folio volume that is essentially a catalogue of small molded female Cypriot figurines from a period of a little more than 250 years, beginning in about 750 B.C. The plates picture nearly a thousand of these figurines carefully classified—by site (some without provenance), by various characteristics (figures with a triangular pubis, a large collar or little eyes) or by larger rubrics (figures with arms at the side, hands cupping […]

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Endnotes

1.

Jacqueline Karageorghis, The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus. vol. 5, The Cypro-Archaic Period Small Female Figurines. B. Figurines Moulées (Nicosia, Cyprus: A.G. Leventis Foundation, 1999).

2.

Paul M. Bator, The International Trade in Art (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1982), p. 78. The passage continues: “Nor should we back into a blank check regime by allowing other nations to manipulate our conceptions of what are stolen goods.”