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Accession_Number 23.11.31MMM
Shape Figurine
Shape_description Female wearing an elaborate pronged headdress and long skirts. The right arm appears heavier, as though draped in or carrying something.
Material Lead
Fabric Spartan
Fabric_description
Munsell_color
Decoration
Inscriptions
Condition The headdress appears incomplete, and the left arm is broken off at mid forearm.
Technique/Style Relief plaque
Provenance Siad to be from the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia, Sparta.
Period Archaic
Date 7-5 c.
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Artist
Attribution
Image

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Spartan female figurines: 23.11.31MMM (centre), 23.11.31RR (right), and assumed 23.11.31ZZ (left).

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Beazley_DB
Height 2.6
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims. W. 1.3
Location 11.1.9
Edited_by Sarah; Liz
Date_edited 02.06.2005; 21.06.2007
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