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Terracotta figures such as this have traditionally been called dolls. Small-scale representations of human figures, mostly women, exist in a great variety of forms; they may have movable limbs, their limbs may be truncated as here, and they may have any number of attributes. Their role, therefore, certainly extended beyond child's play to rituals, the theater, and certainly the grave.
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Title: Terracotta head and torso of a woman
Period: Classical
Date: late 5th–early 4th century BCE
Culture: Greek, Attic
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: H. 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm)
Classification: Terracottas
Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1926
Object Number: 26.60.49
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