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LOT 0034

Greek Terracotta Antefix of a Goddess

ARCHAIC, 6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.

5 3/4 in. (78 grams, 13.1 cm).

Mould-made figure of a female upper body with tall headdress and arms spread, hands palm-upwards; beneath, a C-section channel for attachment to a roof.

Provenance

Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Literature

Cf. a more elaborately modelled example in the British Museum under accession no.1884,1011.2.

CONDITION

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LOT 0034

Greek Terracotta Antefix of a Goddess

Sold for (Inc. bp): £910

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