Young Woman with an Alabastron Making an Offering Terracotta Figurine in the Louvre, June 2013

Young girl holding an alabastron and kneeling before a vase containing offerings
3rd century BC
H. 16 cm; L. 11.4 cm

French School of Athens excavations, 1883
Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
Inventory # Myr 233

Myrina – Tomb A: “Tanagra women”
The “Tanagra” type showing an elegantly draped woman, which first appeared in Athens but was widely circulated in Tanagra in Boeotia, then later throughout the Greek world, was very popular in Myrina. The city initially imported moulds and figurines from Boeotia, before developing models of its own, influenced by the sculpture workshops of Asia Minor. Thirteen “Tanagra women” were discovered in Tomb 97 (known as Tomb A) in the necropolis at Myrina. Details both of style and of technique suggest they were all made in the same workshop.

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