Polychrome terracotta figurine, perhaps Aphrodite
Polychrome terracotta figure of standing woman - of the type known as 'Tanagras' - her left hand resting on her hip, her right arm by her side. She's wearing a form of double chiton (undergarment visible just above ankle) and himation (cloak) muffling her left arm and shoulder while leaving her right arm free. Her hair is centrally parted and drawn back (it may have originally been a bun/coil). She may represent the goddess Aphrodite, given the stance, but there are no attributes.
Smooth hard fired pale brown clay, white slip coating, red pigment on the earrings and hair, yellow pigment on the hair and chiton, and blue - probably Egyptian Blue - on her himation.
Hellenistic, from Corinth, Peloponnese, 250-230 BCE.
Height: 26 cm (10.24 in.)
British Museum, London (1895,1029.7)
Polychrome terracotta figurine, perhaps Aphrodite
Polychrome terracotta figure of standing woman - of the type known as 'Tanagras' - her left hand resting on her hip, her right arm by her side. She's wearing a form of double chiton (undergarment visible just above ankle) and himation (cloak) muffling her left arm and shoulder while leaving her right arm free. Her hair is centrally parted and drawn back (it may have originally been a bun/coil). She may represent the goddess Aphrodite, given the stance, but there are no attributes.
Smooth hard fired pale brown clay, white slip coating, red pigment on the earrings and hair, yellow pigment on the hair and chiton, and blue - probably Egyptian Blue - on her himation.
Hellenistic, from Corinth, Peloponnese, 250-230 BCE.
Height: 26 cm (10.24 in.)
British Museum, London (1895,1029.7)