Carlotta - the museum database

NM Ant 2288 :: figurine

Object description: Standing, female figure with stylised body; she wears a polos and has a volute on the front side of the polos; the face is very small and pinched, no features are indicated, except for the painted eyes; long and thick neck; small, roughly triangular arms; solid, flat body, flaring out at base; concave underside. Pale brown clay; pale brown to buff slip; brown to black paint. Three long, curly plaits – indicated by wavy lines – fall down on the back, and two on the front side of the body; top of polos painted; five horizontal strokes on the volute; she has large eyes consisting of ellipses and a central dot; she wears a double necklace with pendants; the dress is indicated by vertical bars on the arms, by six wavy lines below the girdle and by vertical strokes topped by a horizontal band close to the base; the girdle is indicated by horizontal, wavy lines alternating with three rows of dots and two horizontal lines; two tassels fall down below the girdle.

Data elements
References (1)

Inventory number

NM Ant 2288

Serie nummer

2066

Object

figurine

Material

Terracotta; Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Terrakotta; Keramik

Description

Standing, female figure with stylised body; she wears a polos and has a volute on the front side of the polos; the face is very small and pinched, no features are indicated, except for the painted eyes; long and thick neck; small, roughly triangular arms; solid, flat body, flaring out at base; concave underside. Pale brown clay; pale brown to buff slip; brown to black paint. Three long, curly plaits – indicated by wavy lines – fall down on the back, and two on the front side of the body; top of polos painted; five horizontal strokes on the volute; she has large eyes consisting of ellipses and a central dot; she wears a double necklace with pendants; the dress is indicated by vertical bars on the arms, by six wavy lines below the girdle and by vertical strokes topped by a horizontal band close to the base; the girdle is indicated by horizontal, wavy lines alternating with three rows of dots and two horizontal lines; two tassels fall down below the girdle.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

c. 550 BC [?]

Period

Archaic

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