Figurine of a seated goddess

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 11809

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Coroplastic

Period

Archaic Period

Date

510-480 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.11 m

Material

Clay

Location

First Floor Case 23, Νο 8

Description
Bibliography

Figurine of a seated goddess found during one of the Acropolis excavation campaigns. The goddess sits on a throne and her schematically rendered hands rest on her knees whereas her feet on a footstool. She wears a chiton decorated once with painted ornaments and her hair forms locks that fall over the shoulders. On her head she has a stephane and disk-shaped earrings adorn her earlobes.

Preserved is some of the white slip that covered the whole figurine, as well as traces of red and black colour.

Casson, S., Brooke, D., Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum. Sculpture and Architectural Fragments, with a section upon the Terracottas, II, Cambridge, 1921, σελ. 361, αρ.κατ. 332
Μπρούσκαρη, Μ., Μουσείον Ακροπόλεως. Περιγραφικός κατάλογος, Αθήνα, 1974, σελ. 35, εικ. 33
Wagner, C., Dedication Practices on the Athenian Acropolis, 8th to 4th centuries BC, University of Oxford, 1997, σελ. 170