Female protome

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 12762

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Coroplastic

Period

Archaic Period

Date

520 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.12 m

Material

Clay

Location

First Floor Case 22, Νο 8

Description
Bibliography

Female protome, with the face chipped off. It was found during one of the Acropolis excavation campaigns. The woman has big eyes, full lips and the locks of hair rendered in relief cover her forehead. She had a stephane today lost on the head. The surface retains traces of white slip and red paint.

Terracotta female protomes are usually encountered as dedications in public sanctuaries offered primarily to female deities; as ritualistic objects in domestic shrines; as objects with apotropaic or decorative character in private households and as grave offerings in women's and children's burials. Their interpretation is uncertain since they are sometimes considered depictions of deities and other times of mere mortals.

Casson, S., Brooke, D., Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum. Sculpture and Architectural Fragments, with a section upon the Terracottas, II, Cambridge, 1921, σελ. 406, αρ.κατ. 622
Σωτηριάδη-Sedwick, P., Αττικά πήλινα ειδώλια αρχαικής εποχής, Αθήνα, 1939, σελ. 37, 40, 41, 42, εικ. ΙΙ.2, αρ.κατ. 622
Croissant, F., «Observations sur le style de la tête Wix de Copenhague», στο M. Προύνη-Θιλίπ, A. Καλογεροπούλου (επιμ.), Στήλη. ΤΟΜΟΣ ΕΙΣ ΜΝΗΜΗΝ ΝΙΚΟΛΑΛΟΥ Κοντολέοντος, Αθήνα, 1980, σελ. 48-50, πίν. 7d
Croissant, F., Les protomes feminines archaiques. Recherches sur les représentations du visage dans la plastique grecque de 550 à 480 av. J.-C, 1983, Paris, σελ. 105 υποσημ. 3, 261, εικ. 104, αρ.κατ. 159