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 Greece Figurines


Item No.: 91.007
Boeotian Figurine: Squatting Monkey

A roughly shaped figurine of a squatting monkey. The clay that forms the triangular head is pinched at the top ... more

   
Item No.: 87.224
South Italian Figurine: Head

The head of a female figurine made from light orange-buff clay with traces of white remaining ... more

   
Item No.: 82.038
South Italian Figurine: Female Figurine

A large statuette of an elegant woman, once painted in bright, matt colours ... more

   
Item No.: 73.001
South Italian Figurine: Head of Goddess

The head of a goddess wearing a stephane and a veil at the back ... more

   
Item No.: 66.008
South Italian Figurine: Standing Female Figurine with Phiale

A draped, standing female figure holding offerings, set on a pedestal ... more

   
Item No.: 86.128
South Italian Figurine: Tortoise

A small figurine of a tortoise with four legs, a head and a tail protruding from under its shell ... more

   
Item No.: 92.003
Corinthian Figurine: Fragmentary Squatting Satyr

The head and torso of a satyr with a moulded head and a body that has been shaped by hand ... more

   
Item No.: 88.008
South Italian Figurine: Seated Eros

A polychrome figurine of Eros as a naked youth, shown seated in a frontal position with his left hand ... more

   
Item No.: 86.007
South Italian Figurine: Loom weight with infant Heracles

A thick, terracotta loom weight with a flat front and back, each of which is decorated with figures in relief ... more

   
Item No.: 81.001
Boeotian Figurine: Figurine of an Actor, Middle Comedy Type

A standing figure of an old man actor, a stereotypical figure of Middle Comedy ... more

   
Item No.: 69.008
Greek Figurine: Boar

A figurine of a slightly crouching, standing boar set on a low plinth ... more

   
Item No.: 69.009
Greek Figurine: Boar

A figurine of a boar standing upright on a low plinth. He has an upturned snout and a ridge along his back ... more

   
Item No.: 95.070a
South Italian Figurine: Fragmentary Head

A fragment of a figurine, consisting of the head of a woman wearing an elaborate head-dress ... more

   
Item No.: 90.005
Campanian Figurine: Gorgoneion Mask

A terracotta relief plaque in the form of a frontal face of a Gorgon, a gorgoneion ... more

   
Item No.: 87.213
South Italian Figurine: Plaque with Thetis Bearing the Arms of Achilles

A relief plaque depicting the Nereid Thetis riding on a hippocamp, carrying a cuirass to her son Achilles ... more

   
Item No.: 82.037
Greek Figurine: Fragmentary Figurine

The top half of a small figurine, probably depicting a standing woman holding her arms out to the sides ... more

   
Item No.: 70.008
Minoan Figurine: Fragmentary Figurine

A fragmentary figurine consisting of the head and torso of a man with only the very tops of the arms remaining ... more

   
Item No.: 92.001
South Italian Figurine: Standing Artemis

A large statuette of a standing Artemis, set on a high oval plinth. She wears a polos on her head ... more

   
Item No.: 87.226
South Italian Figurine: Head with Knidian Coiffure

A finely modelled head of a woman with hair rolled over at the sides ... more

   
Item No.: 83.099
Mycenaean Figurine: Psi Shaped Female Figurine

A stylised representation of a female figure, probably a goddess, wearing a long narrow skirt ... more

   
Item No.: 80.007
Greek Figurine: Seated Goddess

The frontal figure of goddess, seated on a straight-sided ... more

   
Item No.: 66.009
South Italian Figurine: Dove

A roughly shaped figurine of a bird with very little detail, a type of terracotta ... more

   
Item No.: 95.068a
South Italian Figurine: Fragmentary Head with Head-dress

The face of a goddess wearing an elaborate head-dress (partly damaged) ... more

   
Item No.: 88.011
Boeotian Figurine: Female Figurine

Figurines of standing women were common in mid-fifth century Boeotia ... more

   
Item No.: 86.055
South Italian Figurine: Fragmentary Figurine

A fragment of a type of figurine, a seated woman wearing chains with pendants on her chest ... more

   
Item No.: 82.035
Mycenaean Figurine: Fragmentary Phi Shaped Figurine

The upper half of a Mycenaean female figure, probably a representation of a goddess derived from Crete ... more

   
Item No.: 95.072a
South Italian Figurine: Fragmentary Reclining Dionysos

The head, torso and upper arms of a reclining Dionysos ... more

   
Item No.: 95.072b
Greek Figurine: Fragmentary Satyr

The head and torso of a satyr wearing a turban-like head-dress with flaps hanging beside his face ... more