Seated boy (Munich SL 238)
The Sitting boy is a statuette of terracotta in the National Antiquities Collections in Munich with the inventory number 238 SL, formerly in the collection of James Loeb . Its origin is in the year 300 BC. Dated.
The statuette was broken in parts and was reassembled, which has caused some damage. The small figure represents a boy who is smiling and watching his comrades play dice. He sits on the corner of a raised pedestal that is profiled above . He wears pink streaks of paint on his robe, a sleeveless undergarment and a bandana in his long, red-dyed curly hair. He supports himself with his left hand on the pedestal, which means that the undergarment that has slipped down on one side leaves the left shoulder uncovered. In his right hand he holds a pouch filled with astragals .
The statuette, made of brown clay, is 16 cm high and comes from Greece.
The type of this statuette is found frequently, albeit with small variations.
literature
- Johannes Sieveking : The Terracottas of the Loeb Collection , Volume 2, A. Buchholz, Munich 1916, p. 30 [1]