A GREEK THREE-LEGGED TERRACOTTA HARPY FIGURE, wearing high flaring headdress with serrated edge and five indentations across the front, and wearing large disc earrings, the body with elongated wings and three legs on integral base; another, similar, wearing a high polos and with bird-like body, both repaired, circa 525-500 B.C., 6¾in. (17.2cm.) high; and a Mycenaean terracotta psi figure, with arms upraised and wearing flaring polos, 1300-1200 B.C., 5½in. (14cm.) high (3)

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A GREEK THREE-LEGGED TERRACOTTA HARPY FIGURE, wearing high flaring headdress with serrated edge and five indentations across the front, and wearing large disc earrings, the body with elongated wings and three legs on integral base; another, similar, wearing a high polos and with bird-like body, both repaired, circa 525-500 B.C., 6¾in. (17.2cm.) high; and a Mycenaean terracotta psi figure, with arms upraised and wearing flaring polos, 1300-1200 B.C., 5½in. (14cm.) high (3)

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Items 1 and 2: cf. R. A. Higgins, Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, I, London, 1969, p. 211, pl. 109, nos 790-791, for standing female figures from Boeotia with similar headdresses and earrings