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Plaque with a Woman

Date

325–200 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta with white slip and polychromy (red, black)

Culture

Greek (South Italian, Tarantine)

Department

Sculpture

Institution

Getty Museum

The female figure is shown frontally, standing on a curved base marked by a fillet in relief and two painted, horizontal red lines. She places her weight on the left leg; the right leg is bent. She gathers folds of drapery in her right hand and in her left, she holds up a bowl. She wears a chiton gathered by a belt beneath the breasts, and on her left side a himation drapes down in broad folds. The features of her oval face are sketchily defined; the hair is parted over the forehead and gathered up. The statuette, made from a worn mold, must originally have been painted with bright colors. The relief could depict the deified maiden Polyboia, who is sometimes portrayed with a phiale mesomphalos, a bowl used in rituals, among other attributes.

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