Oggetto archeologico
Votive statuette |
Votive statuette depicting a mourner, National Archaeological Museum of Egnazia, 3rd cent.
BC
A hollow statuette with an internal airhole, it represents a dressed female figure standing with arms bent laterally and elbows raised. Oval face, framed by locks of hair that are collected at the nape in a bun. Recomposed from many fragments, faint traces of colour.
Further information
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| Identificazione | ||
| Ente competente: | Superintendence for the Historical Artistic and Ethnic- anthropology Heritage of Apulia – TA | |
| Inventory number: | E 61146 | |
| Reperimento | ||
| Place of discovery: | Egnatia, western necropolis, tomb 81/82 called “Tomb of the clay bed”, countermoved between cippus and ditch, 1/2/4982 | |
| Oggetto | ||
| Definizione: | Votive statuette | |
| Class and ware: | Coroplastics | |
| Title or subject: | Mourner | |
| Cronologia | ||
| Period: | Hellenistic Period | |
| Datazione certa secolo: | 3rd cent. BC | |
| Definizione culturale | ||
| Cultural milieu: | Apulian | |
| Dati tecnici | ||
| Material: | Hazelnut coloured clay, white plastering, added colours red, pink, light blue | |
| Technique: | Moulding, retouching with stick | |
| Height: | 37.5 | |
