Goddess or Maiden

675-650 BCE (Orientalizing)

5.4 cm 18.2 cm 6 cm

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This unique and beautifully preserved figurine was one of the first Greek experiments in casting the female form in bronze. She may have been a votive offering, possibly to the goddess Artemis. The simple facial features, horizontal layers of hair, awkward proportions, and sol...

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Tyszkiewicz Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Tyszkiewicz Collection Sale, 1898, no. 134; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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