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Fragmentary Votive Figurine of a Winged Goddess
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Flat lead figurine of a winged goddess facing left. Long tresses of hair fall over her shoulders. Her long skirt is decorated with three patterned bands arranged vertically: diamonds, herringbone, and a simple line. A line across the chest indicates that she may be wearing a garment with an overfold, such as a peplos. The feet, top of the head, proper right wing, proper left hand, and tip of the left wing are lost. Other figurines of the same type show that the goddess wore a high, cylindrical headgear (polos), that she may have held wreaths, and that the wings were sickle-shaped. The plain back of the figurine suggests that it was cast in a one-sided mold.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Humfry Payne Collection (?-1936) England. [Galerie Gunter Puhze Freiburg Germany 2001] sold; to The Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University (2001-2012) transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums 2012.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Fragmentary Votive Figurine of a Winged Goddess
Description:
Flat lead figurine of a winged goddess facing left.
Long tresses of hair fall over her shoulders.
Her long skirt is decorated with three patterned bands arranged vertically: diamonds, herringbone, and a simple line.
A line across the chest indicates that she may be wearing a garment with an overfold, such as a peplos.
The feet, top of the head, proper right wing, proper left hand, and tip of the left wing are lost.
Other figurines of the same type show that the goddess wore a high, cylindrical headgear (polos), that she may have held wreaths, and that the wings were sickle-shaped.
The plain back of the figurine suggests that it was cast in a one-sided mold.
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