Figurine

50-14-3

From: Italy | Campania | Paestum (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number 50-14-3
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture South Italian (uncertain)
Provenience Italy | Campania | Paestum (uncertain)
Section Mediterranean
Materials Terracotta
Iconography Human
Description

Complete, but mended at shoulders and on footstool. Evenly encrusted. Face abraded. Throne is wide with flaring up-turned edges on seat and cross-bats at top of back. Footstool is low. Figure is robed in simple undraped garment from shoulders to ankles and wears tall polos. Buff clay, fine, slipped; color at core very little pinker than white-buff surface. Not micaceous.

Height 21 cm
Width 11.5 cm
Depth 10 cm
Credit Line Exchange with Albert Jehle, 1950

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