ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art

Statuette of a Draped Woman

AAT Object Form/FunctionTanagra Figurines

Place CreatedTanagra, Greece, Europe

CultureGreek, Tanagran

PeriodEarly Hellenistic

Date3rd century BCE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineCarlos Collection of Ancient Art

DimensionsMaximum: 9 11/16 × 3 7/8 × 2 in. (24.6 × 9.8 × 5.1 cm)

Object number1984.015

Label TextThe standing female figure wears a long tunic (chiton) beneath a mantle (himation) wrapped tightly around her body and pulled over the back of her head. Her hair is covered by a face-veil (tegidion) worn rolled up over her forehead; the eye-holes are visible above the brow. She rests her weight on her left leg, holds her left arm behind her hip, and her right arm across her chest. Traces of polychromy are preserved on the drapery and hair.

Exhibition HistoryThe Pomerance Collection of Ancient Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, June 14 - October 2, 1966
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11,1993 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - September 15, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 29, 2014 - September 5, 2023
Recasting Antiquity: Whistler, Tanagra, and the Female Form, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 3 - May 19, 2024
Published ReferencesArs Antiqua AG, Auktion II Antike Kustwereke (14 May 1960), 33, number 75, plate 35:75.
Edward L.B. Terrace, et al., The Pomerance Collection of Ancient Art (Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1966), 89, number 105.
Bonna D. Wescoat and Monique Seefried, "Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology Reopens," Archaeology 38 (May/June 1985): 63.
Helen C. Smith, "A Walk Through Time," Atlanta Weekly, June 8, 1986.
Michael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 64.

ProvenanceEx Pomerance Collection of Ancient Art, New York, New York, purchased from Ars Antiqua, Luzern Switzerland, May 14, 1960. Purchased by Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology from Robert Haber [Robert Haber and Associates], New York, New York.

Status

On view

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