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LOT 0626

Sold for (Inc. bp): £208

ARCHAIC GREEK TERRACOTTA SEATED GODDESS
6TH CENTURY B.C.
5 in. (169 grams, 12.7 cm).

Seated on a high-backed throne, wearing a polos headdress with two long braids falling from underneath the headdress, wearing a long chiton. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
with H.A.C., Basel, prior 1999.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Biers, W.R., The Archaeology of Greece. An Introduction, Ithaca-London, 1987, fig.8.63, p.236, for a similar statuette; see a similar terracotta of seated Demeter at the Brooklyn Museum, accession no.34.689; other similar terracottas at the British Museum, London, accession nos. GR 1863, 0728, 273, 274, 266, 268 and 269.

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