Statuette of a woman (NAMA 4)
The statuette of a woman in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens ( NAMA ) with inventory number 4 is an archaic statuette of a young woman, dating back to the late 7th century BC. Is dated.
The head of the statuette was broken off. It is less well preserved than the rest of the statuette. The nose is missing, the chin is badly bumped, the mouth is also deformed by bumps. Parts of the hairstyle are missing, the face is badly damaged, and the eyes are also bumped. The hair is worked over the forehead in a hairstyle with medium-sized curls. The hair is pulled over the shoulder to the front of the body in several, slightly more than shoulder-length, thick braids . There are two holes in the eyes with inlays. The woman is shown standing upright, as was the custom at the time. She also wears the usual peplos , which is held together with a narrow belt over the hips. Although the entire body is covered, the garment is so tight that all contours underneath can be seen up to hip height. The arms hang down at the side.
With two other such statuettes, this work formed the base of a perirrhanterion , a holy water basin. The statuette of a woman (NAMA 3443) also belonged to this perirrhanterion as one of the other two statuettes. The head of the statue was initially kept under inventory number 16 in the Museum of Thebes until it was brought back together with the body in Athens. All pieces were found in 1886 in the sanctuary of Apollo on Mount Ptoion in Boeotia . The statuette made of Pentelic marble is 42 centimeters high. It is a Boeotic work that is influenced by models from the Middle East , probably Syria or Cyprus .
literature
- Nikolaos Kaltsas : Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens , The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2002, ISBN 0-89236-686-9 , p. 38.
