Standing Female Figure
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Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the sculpture
This standing statuette features a flat body, a narrow waist, distinctly rendered buttocks, and carefully rendered legs with knees, calves, and small feet. The left arm is bent upward to touch the side of the head. The original form of the right arm, which is broken off at the elbow, is unknown. The head is rounded and marked only by a low vertical nose ridge flanked by continuous concave areas representing the eyes and cheeks. The top of the head is round.
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This small statuette, very different in modeling and proportions from the Syro-Hittite series of the Late Bronze Age, is reminiscent of some human statuettes recovered from wealthy tombs at Alaca Höyük and other burial sites in the northeastern part of the Anatolian plateau. Some of these display remarkably naturalistic anatomical features. Therefore, it seems reasonable to assign this unusual statuette, which may well be female, to the Early Bronze Age of east-central Anatolia.
David G. Mitten
Harvard Art Museums
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1992.256.89
In the catalog
Sources
- Harvard Art Museums
- Image: Harvard Art Museums — © President and Fellows of Harvard College
