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Figure of a draped woman votary
Italic, Etruscan
Classical Period
late 5th to 4th century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Bronze
Dimensions
Height: 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Aimée and Miss Rosamond Lamb
Accession Number68.41
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
Catalogue Raisonné
Greek, Etruscan, & Roman Bronzes (MFA), no. 213; Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), p. 122 (additional published references).
DescriptionFigurine depicting a draped woman votary. She wears a diadem (stephane), a tunic (chiton) and a long mantle (himation) wrapped tightly around her body. The mantel is decorated with circles along the edges. Her hands are held outwards, palms open; the left is turned slightly upwards, in the traditional Italo-Roman gesture of prayer. Head and arms are tubular, but the body is thin, almost a flat sheet. The eyes are rendered with two circles and the nose is small but projecting. A tang projects from below her feet, for attachment on a stone base. Rough greenish black patina.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Misses Aimée and Rosamond Lamb Collection; gift of the Misses Aimée and Rosamond Lamb to MFA as Apparatus, October 10, 1962; accessioned as 68.41, March 13, 1968