Standing woman (Munich SL 108)

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Standing woman with polos

The Standing woman is a statuette of terracotta in the National Antiquities Collections in Munich with the inventory number SL 180. She is part of the collection James Loeb . It is a common Boeotian type from the transition from the 5th to the 4th century BC. Chr.

The statuette shows a standing woman on a high square base. She supports the weight on the left foot, while the right free leg rests to the side. With both hands she holds a wide band in front of her body that ends in fringes at the bottom. She wears a rich hairstyle and a tall, wide polo shirt . The statuette is richly painted: yellow on the sandals, red stripes on the robe, red arm and collar, red hair, cheeks and lips, black eyes.

literature

  • Johannes Sieveking : The Terracottas of the Loeb Collection , Volume 1, Buchholz, Munich 1916, p. 16 [1]