Carlotta - the museum database

NM Ant 0590 :: statuette, sculpture

Object description: Female standing on a small base with left foot slightly advanced. Left arm is partly free from body, slightly bent, and left hand is holding folds of himation. Right arm is bent, right hand (now missing) was holding object between breasts. Wearing collar necklace with pendant, bracelets around each wrist, and circular earrings. The hairstyle is elaborate, with front-hair parted in the middle and a bun at back, held in place by hair-bands. Short-sleeved chiton (ending at elbows) and himation with carefully rendered folds over right shoulder and around waist. The back is rather flat, and hardly worked.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 0590

Serie nummer

6061

Object

statuette; sculpture

Object, Swedish

skulptur

Country - Findspot

Cyprus : Europe

Material

Limestone; Stone

Material, Swedish

Sten

Exhibitions

Exhibited 1969-1973 (where?).

Acquisition

Deposit from the National Museum. Gift from Fil. Dr. Carlo Landberg in 1881.

Description, Swedish

Skulptur; Skulptur, kalksten

Description

Female standing on a small base with left foot slightly advanced. Left arm is partly free from body, slightly bent, and left hand is holding folds of himation. Right arm is bent, right hand (now missing) was holding object between breasts. Wearing collar necklace with pendant, bracelets around each wrist, and circular earrings. The hairstyle is elaborate, with front-hair parted in the middle and a bun at back, held in place by hair-bands. Short-sleeved chiton (ending at elbows) and himation with carefully rendered folds over right shoulder and around waist. The back is rather flat, and hardly worked.

Period