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Goddess in the Museum




janine canan




Marble figurine of a woman.
Mycenean terracotta statuettes of a goddess
wearing a long skirt and a flat headdress.
Ivory seated figure (the swollen abdomen of the figurine
suggests pregnancy).
Terracotta busts of three female figures.
Bronze figure of a woman or goddess.
[Unlabelled].

Terracotta perfume-bottle in the form of a siren.
Terracotta female head.
Terracotta plaque showing a female figure.
Terracotta perfume bottle in the form of a woman's head.
Terracotta woman wearing a finely patterned garment.
Terracotta goddesses (these brightly painted figures
are thought to represent goddesses because of their
tall cylindrcal headdress).

Two terracotta plaques showing a woman or a goddess.
Fragmentary marble statuette of a woman
from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.
Head of a woman, or possibly a sphinx.
Head of a woman from a statue.
Bronze figure of a woman or goddess.
Faience figure of a swimming girl.
Terracotta statuettes of women,
one with a hare, the other with a dove.
Female bust.
Winged goddess with a gorgon's head,
wearing a split skirt and holding a bird in each hand.
Limestone statuette of the goddess Isis with child Horus.

Plate with seated sphinx.
Marble statue of kore (a girl) holding a bird in her left hand
and a fold of her dress in her right.
Terracotta model of two female figurines,
perhaps the goddesses Demeter and Persephone.
Terracotta figure of a goddess.
Terracotta figure of a seated woman.
Terracotta figure, goddess.
Bronze figure of a girl holding a flower.
Bronze figure of a woman holding a flower.
Terracotta figure of a goddess seated on a throne.

[Label removed.]
Terracotta bust holding an egg and a cock.
Idealized head from a statue of a woman.
Helmeted head from a statue of Athena.
Clay figurine of a protective spirit dressed in a fish cloak.
Figurine of a woman with a child -- a fertility charm.
Figurine of a seated pregnant woman.
Pottery doll -- concubine figure.

Terracotta figure of a woman holding a dove.
Terracotta figure of a woman seated on a throne,
holding a tightly wrapped baby.
Terracotta figure of a goddess seated on a throne.
Terracotta figure of a seated woman.
Terracotta figure of a woman wearing a sleeveless tunic.
Bronze figure of Athena.
Bronze mirror with a support in the form
of a female holding a bird.
Terrracotta figure of a woman.
Terracotta upper part of a woman.
Bronze mirror stand in the form of a girl.
Woman wearing peplos.

Nereid or Aura (personified breeze), beneath her a bird.
Nereid or Aura, beneath her a fish
leaping over the waves.



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