c. 300 BCE
Intact hollow, draped female figure with weight on left leg, muffled left arm draws drapery up around torso and upper right leg. The small mold-made head is enveloped in scarf-like headcloth. There are traces of white slip in the grooves of the folds. There is a rectangular perforation with a rounded top cut into the back side.
15.4 x 5 x 6.4 cm (6 1/16 x 1 15/16 x 2 1/2 in.)
Ex collection Professor Mason HAmmond, Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Departments of the Classics and of History, Harvard University
White glass paste
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20th centuryGermanLead-glazed ware: molded, brick-red earthenware with medium-green, lead-fluxed glaze; cold-painted pigments over localized unglazed areas
6th-7th centuryChineseAmaranth wood
20th centuryGermanTerracotta
Bronze
20th centuryAmericanGilt bronze, on black- and ochre-colored marble socle
16th centuryItalianLimestone
5th century BCEAchaemenidPolychromed wood
17th-19th centurySpanish ColonialBronze
20th centuryFrenchBronze
2nd millennium BCESyro-Hittite