Carlotta - the museum database

NM Ant 0283 :: figurine

Object description: Youth standing on high base; stiff pose with weight on his right leg; dressed in a symmetrical cloak covering his back and shoulders, otherwise naked; he holds a cockerel in the crook of his left arm and his right arm hangs at the side; back not modelled; large rectangular vent in back (10.4 x 5.0). Grey clay with traces of glossy white slip all over the front and red paint on the cloak at his left side.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 0283

Serie nummer

3389

Object

figurine

Object, Swedish

skulptur

Country - Findspot

Greece : Europe

Place - Findspot

Thebes

Region - Findspot

Boeotia

Material

Terracotta; Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Terrakotta; Keramik

Acquisition

Gift to the National Museum from N.F.Sander in 1871.

Description

Youth standing on high base; stiff pose with weight on his right leg; dressed in a symmetrical cloak covering his back and shoulders, otherwise naked; he holds a cockerel in the crook of his left arm and his right arm hangs at the side; back not modelled; large rectangular vent in back (10.4 x 5.0). Grey clay with traces of glossy white slip all over the front and red paint on the cloak at his left side.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

450-425 BC

Period

Classical

Name - Owner

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Description: Nationalmuseum is a publicly owned cultural institution.Nationalmuseum%20is%20a%20publicly%20owned%20cultural%20institution.
Source - http: www.nationalmuseum.se, collections.smvk.se

Comments

Urval Galleriet. Nya bilder Medelhavsmuseet 2009.; Reported to have been found at Thebes. A type well known from the votive offerings found at the Sanctuary of the Kabeiri at Thebes.

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