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1966.32.9

Figure, with pointed arm (one arm broken), pointed nose and a long straight body. Painted all over with linear designs. Very similar to previous entry 1966.32.8. [MdeA]16/9/98

1966.32.9

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Collection type
Object
Description
Figure, with pointed arm (one arm broken), pointed nose and a long straight body. Painted all over with linear designs. Very similar to previous entry 1966.32.8. [MdeA]16/9/98
Long description
Figure, with pointed arm (one arm broken), pointed nose and a long straight body. Painted all over with linear designs. Very similar to previous entry 1966.32.8. Flat, with a flared base. Extends at the top of the head to form a spiral, possibly depicting a curled hairstyle. The top of the head flares to form a bowl-like head-dress. [IL [OPS Move] 19/7/2017]
Geographical reference
Greece
Europe > Southern Europe > Greece
Stereá Elláda [Central Greece] Boeotia
Date / Period
Date made: 700-600 BC Archaeological period: Iron Age Archaic Greek
Date collected
By 1966
Acquisition information
Donated: 1966
Materials and processes
Material Terracotta Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Thrown, Process Painted
Dimensions
Depth: max 36 mm, Width: max 60 mm, Height: max 162 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1966.32.9 Other numbers: 524
Research and responses

This object was examined by Dr Yannis Galanakis, Ashmolean Museum, as part of the fell funded project Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections. He advised that it was a plank figurine that was Archaic in date (seventh to sixth century BC). Some of the plank figurines preserve traces of coloured decoration. At the time of their collection these were known as ‘Papádes’, so-called because of their supposed resemblance to Greek Orthodox priests, despite the fact that they are clearly female figures (see e.g. WALTERS, H.B. 1905: History of Ancient Pottery. London, 290; BURROWS, R. M. AND URE, P.N. 1908: ‘Excavations at Rhitsóna in Boeotia’, The Annual of the British School at Athens 14, 226-318, 297. [AS 11/05/2010]

See RDF for donor's typed list of material which was to go to the Pitt Rivers and of the material for the Ashmolean Museum. This list gives the donor's own numbers for the objects and also a description and provenance of the object. [MdeA]16/9/98

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