Carlotta - the museum database

NM Ant 1718 :: figurine

Object description: Standing woman with ‘melon’ hair style, wearing a himation that covers most of her chiton; with her left hand she adjusts her himation on the shoulder, and with the other hand she holds up a fold of her dress; roughly rectangular opening on the unworked backside; mounted on a low, spool-shaped terracotta base with concave underside. Brown clay; traces of white paint.

Data elements
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Inventory number

NM Ant 1718

Serie nummer

1887

Object

figurine

Material

Terracotta; Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Terrakotta; Keramik

Exhibitions

Jönköpings läns museum, 1998.

Acquisition

Bequest of Christina Nilsson, countess of Casa Miranda.

Description

Standing woman with ‘melon’ hair style, wearing a himation that covers most of her chiton; with her left hand she adjusts her himation on the shoulder, and with the other hand she holds up a fold of her dress; roughly rectangular opening on the unworked backside; mounted on a low, spool-shaped terracotta base with concave underside. Brown clay; traces of white paint.

Period

Late Classical-Hellenistic

Exhibition - Current

Study Gallery

Description: Upstairs, in interaction with the Baghdad Cafe, opened in February 2009, the upper gallery. A rich variety of objects retrieved from the museum's storerooms, many of them shown for the first time. A series of booths filled to the brim with beautiful vases functions as a traditional study collection of ancient ceramics. Other booths highlights the thematic elements of the ancient world: the subject of everyday and festive, and images of gods, humans and animals. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2009-07-13, google translate).
Time - Start: 2009-022009-02

Exhibition, Part of - Current