Woman Cooking or Sacrificing at an Altar Figurine in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Woman cooking or sacrificing
Greek, Archaic Period, about early 5th century B.C.

Place of Manufacture: Tanagra, Boiotia, Greece

Dimensions: Height: 9.7 cm (3 13/16 in.)

Medium or Technique: Terracotta

Classification: Sculpture

Accession Number: 01.7787

Woman cooking, leaning over a low, square stove. At her right a round, flat dish containing a cake and two other objects. Red on fillet; traces of red on food on the stove, and on the dish; yellow on the cup in the woman's right hand, white slip on the chiton, top of base and hair of figure. Left arm from above elbow missing. Other breaks.

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