Crouching Woman Playing Knucklebones

4th-3rd century BCE (Late Classical-Hellenistic)

7.9 cm 9.4 cm

Citation

The woman kneels to her right, but turns her wreathed head frontally, making her position appear awkward and precarious. She is positioned on a rectangular base and would have been part of a group. She is playing an ancient form of jacks, known as "astragalus" (knucklebones),...

Sculpture

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34295
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Joseph Brummer Gallery, New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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0
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.283

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