1925.30.98: Standing Girl with Ball
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1925.30.98
- Title
- Standing Girl with Ball
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture, statuette
- Date
- late 4th-late 1st century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Boeotia
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/291163
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta, traces of white slip
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
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16.8 x 7.4 cm (6 5/8 x 2 15/16 in.)
Base: 5.7 x 4.4 cm (2 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Joseph C. Hoppin; bequeathed to Fogg Art Museum, 1925.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
- Accession Year
- 1925
- Object Number
- 1925.30.98
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Young girl holding a ball in her right arm, as if she is about to throw it. Head inclined and turned to the right, "melon" type coiffure. Wearing himation and chiton. Right arm and shoulder were broken off and repaired. Back unmodelled, with a small, rectangular venthole. (2nd from right in photograph)
Hard gray clay, faint traces of white slip.
Verification Level
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