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Standing woman with weight on right leg, left leg slightly bent and advanced. Both arms are bent, hands cupped, right hand at breast. Garments are a sleeved chiton with overfold to mid-thigh, and a small mantle draped across the abdomen and over the left forearm. Hair is bound in a painted sakkos; waves frame forehead. Face is Severe style. High rectangular base, rounded on back.
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Title: Terracotta statuette of a woman
Period: Late Archaic or Early Classical
Date: 1st half of the 5th century BCE
Culture: Greek, probably Rhodian
Medium:
Terracotta
Dimensions: H. 12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm)
Classification: Terracottas
Credit Line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Accession Number: 1972.118.125
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