EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.

細節

A SICILIAN TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF AN ENTHRONED GODDESS
EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Wearing peplos, polos headdress and broad pendant necklaces, her hands resting on her lap, seated on a stool, traces of red painted decoration, repaired; and a Greek terracotta head of a woman, her 'melon'-style hair swept back into a chignon and held in place by a wreath, circa 2nd Century B.C.
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) and 2 in. (5cm.) high respectively (2)

來源

Item one: acquired 1947, Spink, London.
Item two: formerly in the Francis Dawson collection; acquired 1948, Spink.

注意事項

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拍品專文

Item one: it has been suggested that this deity represents Athena Lindia, tutelary deity of Lindos in Rhodes, cf. C. Blinkenberg, L'image d'Athéna Lindia, 1917; R. A. Higgins, Catalogue of the Terracottas, I, The British Museum, London, 1969, pp. 301-302, pl. 151, no. 1099; and W. Hornbostel, Kunst der Antike: Schätze aus norddeutschem Privatbesitz, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1977, pp. 130-131, no. 103 for the type