Free standing female figure with flattish body, outstretched arms and concave base. The elongated face shows distinctive facial features with a pointed nose and a prominent chin. The goddess is wearing a flaring polos with a petal-like top.
The figurine is rendered as a plank idol and strongly reminiscent of a Daedalic style xoanon, wooden cult images used in Archaic Greece.
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Egyptian female head with slender face and an elaborate hairdo showing horizontally arranged curls topped by a coil of hair. The hair at the back of the head is braided.
Similar arrangements of the hairdo are common during the Trajanic period.
For a related head in the Louvre cf. item no. 712 in F. Dunand. Catalogue des terres cuites ...click for details
Terracotta female figure clad in a chiton, the himation drawn over her head. Standing on her left leg, she is clutching some drapery with her bent left arm.
Mannered late Hellenistic style with a very small head and tall body. Rendered with delicate features and an elongated back of the head.
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Apulian guttus of globular body with slightly marked shoulder leading to an upright spout with flared rim. A loop handle attached on the side.
On the bottom a cross in applied red wash.
Gutti were supposedly used as oil containers for filling lamps.
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Apulian kylix of the ‘Palmette Cross’-type, the shallow bowl with four stamped palmettes and linking arcs at center.
The inside rim is offset from the floor as usual with cups dating to the 4th century BC.
For a related cup cf. item no. 103 in: John W. Hayes. Greek and Italian Black-Gloss Wares and Related Wares in the Royal Ontario M ...click for details
Black-glazed kylix of shallow curved bowl with handles attached quite below the rim. The cup is standing on a bulged ring foot.
On the floor the ‘ghost’ of a youth standing in graceful pose and encircled by concentric lines. The young man is leaning back a little, his right arm is outstretched, with the left he is holding a staff.
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Greek Gnathia ware dish with shallow floor and gently raised lip. The partially faded black glaze with three almost preserved dolphins encircling a central flower.
The dolphins rendered in applied white color with their backs and tail fins ‘gilded’ with dilute ochre.
Ceramic
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Serene female head with finely modeled facial features. The elongated head shows a prominent nose, fleshy lips and a round chin. The heavy lids narrow her eyes to slits. The free-modeled hairdo is parted at center and topped by a crown.
The head orientates on Hellenistic types and is most likely from Egypt.
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Polychrome wood mask and upper headcloth from an anthropoid coffin. The light red-brown face with a serene smile, the large eyes are rendered with cosmetic lines. Eyes and eyebrows painted black, the striated headdress enhanced yellow and green.
Wood
Egyptian, Late Period, 712-332 BC
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Rare variant of Isis-Demeter seated on a throne. The goddess is wearing a chiton and a richly folded cloak with a floral wreath and grain ears across the chest. She is holding a staff (torch?) with her right hand. A small bag suspended from her left wrist.
The head with chubby features, beady eyes and purse lips. Severan style melon hairdo with sidelocks falling along the shoulders. Large earrings. The head framed b ...click for details
