Cast

Human Figurine

CBS Register: cast. terracotta figurine, fragment, traces of plaster (to work out details) woman, dressed.

PBS XVI: Babylonian lady as before. She wears a plaited tunic below a shawl draped over the left shoulder. Her left hand is muffled in the shawl, gathering the folds at the wait. Her right arm hangs in the festoon in front. Her elaborate headdress is a turban or a Greek calathos spreading at the top. It is adorned with a large stone in a ring of pearls. A veil above the turban swells into horn-like projections before falling on the shoulders after the fashion of Jewish and Parthian ladies. Front and back of this and other hollow figurines are molded apart and joined. The red clay is covered with a white slip and perhaps painted. Cast of an original in Constantinople