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Terracotta Statuette of a Woman in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2008

Terracotta Statuette of a Woman in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2008
Terracotta Statuette of a Woman
Greek, South Italian, Tarentine, late 3rd century BC

Accession # 11.212.18

This figure may represent a maenad, a follower of Dionysos, god of wine. She wears a wreath of ivy and korymboi (ivy berries), and her garment is draped to leave her right breast bare.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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