Painted terracotta head from a statue of a worshipper From the
Sanctuary of Apollo at Phrangissa, Tamassos, About 600 BC A head
in true Cypriot style This head is in true Cypriot style with an
Assyrian type beard, wide open eyes, a severe expression and
prominent nose. A number of other male heads have Assyrian style
beards like this one - hardly surprising as Cyprus was under
Assyrian control from about 707-612 BC. The tallest of these
large-scale terracotta statues discovered so far measures 260 cm
in height and comes from the same site as this head: the
Sanctuary of Apollo at Phrangissa, Tamassos on the island of
Cyprus. The first large-scale statues of terracotta in Cypriot
style are recorded from the island of Samos in the middle of the
seventh century BC. They were first produced in Cyprus in the
later seventh century BC. The statues continued to be made into
the sixth century, though production had ceased by about 550 BC
when sculpture in stone became more popular. The city of Salamis
may have led the