Terracotta statuette of a goddess
Not on view
The polos (headdress) with a volute suggests that the figure is a goddess, probably Persephone, queen of the Underworld. Many statuettes of this type wear a necklace with a pomegranate, a symbol of death and rebirth. The great majority of the Boeotian plank-shaped statuettes with known findspots have been discovered in graves, and come primarily from the necropoleis, or cemeteries, of Ritsona, Akraiphia, Tanagra, and Thebes.
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