A terracotta figure of an old woman, standing with shoulders hunched, wearing a pleated chiton with long overfall, girdled at the waist, with a himation wrapped around her, draped over her left shoulder and folded over the crook of her left arm, her right hand holds the drapery at her side, her hair caught back in a sakkos with a fringe of hair showing beneath, rectangular vent -- 6¼in. (15.9cm.) high, late 4th Century B.C., probably Boeotian

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A terracotta figure of an old woman, standing with shoulders hunched, wearing a pleated chiton with long overfall, girdled at the waist, with a himation wrapped around her, draped over her left shoulder and folded over the crook of her left arm, her right hand holds the drapery at her side, her hair caught back in a sakkos with a fringe of hair showing beneath, rectangular vent -- 6¼in. (15.9cm.) high, late 4th Century B.C., probably Boeotian

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