ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK TERRACOTTA FEMALE VOTIVE FIGURE
ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Wearing chiton and himation, tall headdress above centrally-parted hair, holding a piglet by its hind legs in her right hand, clutching her drapery in her left, with large eyes and nose and archaic smile
15 in. (38 cm.) high

Provenance

with Paul Cohen, Toulouse, April 1995.

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Lot Essay

According to R. A. Higgins in Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Oxford, 1969, p. 299, terracotta figures of women holding pigs represent votaries with an offering to Demeter or Persephone. Although they are found all over the Greek world, they occur most frequently in Sicily.

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