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Small Statuette of a Goddess
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Hera-Juno wears a himation pulled over her head and a high-girt chiton. She probably held a patera in her right hand and a staff in her raised left hand (both now missing). This statuette may have been part of a portable household shrine.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Paul J. Sachs Cambridge MA (by 1942) gift; to the Fogg Museum 1942.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Paul J. Sachs
Title: Small Statuette of a Goddess
Description:
Hera-Juno wears a himation pulled over her head and a high-girt chiton.
She probably held a patera in her right hand and a staff in her raised left hand (both now missing).
This statuette may have been part of a portable household shrine.
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