Statuette of a Goddess
600-580 BCE
- Medium
- terracotta
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- 18.2 × 7.7 × 6.8 cm (7 3/16 × 3 1/16 × 2 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- Dhodhóni
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- George W. Sheldon Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This terracotta sculpture was fashioned from locally abundant clay in Boeotia, situated to the northwest of Athens. The standing female wears a tall headdress and a painted necklace with a pomegranate pendant, which suggests that she depicts either Demeter or Persephone, goddesses of the harvest and agricultural fertility, respectively. Statuettes like this one were created in great numbers, probably as gifts to the gods or to be placed in graves.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
