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Youth stands frontally turning head to look back over left shoulder. Chlamys is wrapped around shoulders, drops to below knees, and is held over chin. Right arm at side, left propped under chin. Long wavy hair to shoulders.
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Title: Terracotta statuette of a boy
Period: Hellenistic
Date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
Culture: Greek, perhaps Attic
Medium:
Terracotta; Fabric: fine orange, with sparse small sparkling inclusions.
Slip, paint: white slip.
Method of manufacture: moldmade, legs added.
Back, venting: Back moldmade, plain, not vented, open under shirt.
Dimensions: H. 6 1/4 in. (15.8 cm)
Classification: Terracottas
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906
Object Number: 06.1064
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