Limestone Female Figure

Limestone Female Figure

Description:

Head of limestone female figure wearing sakkos and fillet of rosettes. She also wears a pendant around her neck and large rosette earrings. Soft white limestone. Broken at neck.


Dimensions: Height: 8 centimetres max


Object Type: figure


Techniques: carved

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

510 - 490 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Sanctuary of Aphrodite (Naukratis) (likely)

Accession Number:

1911,0606.6