Female figurine

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 10834

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Coroplastic

Period

Archaic Period

Date

500-480 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.225 m

Material

Clay

Location

First Floor Case 24, Νο 1

Description
Bibliography

Female figurine found in 1888 north of the Parthenon. The figure is standing frontally with raised hands. She wears white chiton and red obliquely worn himation. The hair is painted black and falls on the shoulders whereas a painted necklace adorns the neck. The figure has sandals on. Preserved is part of the white slip, as well as pale blue and red colour.

The figurine probably depicts one of the kanephoroi ("basket-bearers") as her separately made arms appear to have been raised in order to hold a ceremonial basket over her head. It has also been suggested that she is a hydriaphoros or Athena Promachos.

Winter, F., «Sitzungsberichte der Archaolog. Gesellschaft zu Berlin. 1893 Juli», Archäologischer Anzeiger 1893, σελ. 142, εικ. 9
Winter, F., Die antiken Terrakotten. Die Typen der figürlichen Terrakotten, III.1, Berlin/Stuttgart, 1903, σελ. 45, εικ. σχ. 10, αρ. κατ. 10
Casson, S., Brooke, D., Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum. Sculpture and Architectural Fragments, with a section upon the Terracottas, II, Cambridge, 1921, σελ. 375-376, αρ. κατ. 34
Nicholls, R., «Two Groups of Archaic Attic Terracottas», στο D.C. Kurtz, B. Sparkes (επιμ.), The Eye of Greece. Studies in the Art of Athens, Cambridge, 1982, σελ. 111, εικ. 27c, αρ. κατ. E1+:2
Βλασσοπούλου, Χ., Αττικοί ανάγλυφοι πίνακες της Αρχαϊκής εποχής, Αθήνα, 2003, σελ. 135, πίν. 61, αρ. κατ. ΙΙΙ.7