SculptureIberian5th-2nd century BCE

Female Votive Statuette

late 5th-2nd century BCE

Classification

Sculpture

Technique

Cast, lost-wax process

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Iberian

Period

Iron Age

Century

5th-2nd century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

8.7 cm (3 7/16 in.)

Provenance

National Archaeological Museum of Spain, (by 1933), by exchange; to the Fogg Art Museum. Excavated at the sanctuary site of Collado de los Jardines, Jaén, in the early 1900s. Note: In exchange for a Sepulchral slab from the Cemetery at Sahagun, Leon, Spain.

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