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Accession_Number 83.10.1
Shape Figurine
Shape_description
Material Terracotta
Fabric
Fabric_description
Munsell_color
Decoration Standing female figure in cloak, with halo-shaped hat (or hair style). Rectangular hole in back. Hollow. Right leg bent, right arm across breast. White slip on clothes and face, pink on head, and shoulders of garment.
Inscriptions
Condition Quite badly worn. It has been glued back together using three fragments. There seems to be a fragment missing at the bottom of the statue, therefore the figurine is incomplete. Most of the features of the statue are badly worn. There are many soil deposits all over the figure. Inside the hollow figurine there appears to be some sort of plant.
Technique/Style Moulded; painted
Provenance
Period Hellenistic
Date
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

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Oblique view of a figurine, showing a woman in a cloak with a halo-shaped hat or hair style.

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Front view of the back of a figurine, showing a woman in a cloak with a halo-shaped hat or hair style and the hole in the back.

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Front view of the side a figurine, showing a woman in a cloak with a halo-shaped hat or hair style.

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Front view of the side a figurine, showing a woman in a cloak with a halo-shaped hat or hair style.
Comparanda Cf. D.B. Thompson, Troy. The Terracotta Figurine, nos. 150-155. Perhaps this figurine was placed outside at some point, as this would account for its bad condition and the plant inside it.
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Beazley_DB
Height 21.0
Diameters Max. 7.0; min. 5.3
Handle_height
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Location 4.2.1
Edited_by Sarah; Will; Jayne
Date_edited 23.07.2003; 9.7.2007; 8.06.22
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