Statuette of a Mourning Female in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Female mourner
Greek, Late Orientalizing or Early Archaic Period, about 600 B.C.

Place of Manufacture: Boiotia, Greece

Dimensions: Height: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.)

Medium or Technique: Terracotta

Classification: Sculpture

Catalogue Raisonné: Highlights: Classical Art (MFA), p. 101.

Accession Number: 67.916

Female mourning figure. Standing with rubbery arms curved up to touch top of head. Flat ovoid in section, with base slightly splayed and concave. Entire body from neck down and arms to below elbows painted in matt black, as is hair and facial details. Nose chipped. Head and arms in the round. White of the eye in white.

Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/female-mourner-151502