1925.30.109: Standing Female Figure
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1925.30.109
- Title
- Standing Female Figure
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- statuette, sculpture
- Date
- 323-31 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Myrina (Aiolis)
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/291166
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
-
16 x 5.6 cm (6 5/16 x 2 3/16 in.)
Base: 6.5 x 5.1 cm (2 9/16 x 2 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
- 1925.30.109
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Woman with wavy hair parted in the center and gathered in a knot at the back of her head. She is wearing a chiton with long, straight folds, and a large diagonal fold of her himation is supported by her arms. Flat, rectangular plinth, upper back slightly modeled with a small, rectangular vent hole. Head was broken off and repaired and the lef front and back right corner of the base as well as a portion of her right hand is missing. (Left-hand figure in photograph). Incisor tool marks visible in hair. Significant surface damage to terracotta (mold?).
Publication History
- Laura Mau, "A Pigment Analysis of Greek Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1991), Unpublished, pp. 1-7 passim
Verification Level
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