Human Figurine

CBS Register: Terracotta figurine. Resting woman.

PBS XVI: Woman on a couch in the attitude of a guest at a banquet. The light tunic scarcely veils breasts and navel. A shawl, or himation, wraps the lower limbs. The body leans on the left elbow resting on a cushion. The left hand holds a fruit or a cup. The right rests along the side. A string of beads hands between the two breasts above the embroidered tunic. The hair is parted, waved and falls on the shoulders. It is tied with a veil or diadem. The diadem of the two following figures is a round calathos or a peaked cap. The little clay monument has a funerary destination, and was often reproduced in Greco-Parthian times. Better examples were cut in alabaster. Hollow figure molded in two pieces.