Légende

Figurine of a goddess, Figurine of a standing woman in a narrow dress with straps. The dress is decorated with a mesh motif with rhombus dots; the straps are decorated with vertical and horizontal stripes. A necklace is worn on the neck. The head, feet, and left hand are missing; the right hand hangs alongside the body. Possibly Neith mythology? c. 945–c. 715 BC; Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, Egypt. Terracotta? material unspecified. Figurine; height 11.3 cm, width 3 cm, weight 0.19 kg., A slender headless and armless torso-shaped object with one partial arm remaining, rendered in dark brown and black tones with areas of reddish and greenish discoloration, decorated across its front with a repeating pattern of metallic gold circular dots and intersecting petal-like shapes, a gold-decorated bodice area with horizontal-striped triangular motifs, and a gold collar-like motif at the neck; the surface appears textured and worn with irregular edges and small holes, set against a plain light gray background.

Crédit

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Notre référence

LZT26A17_488

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

37.8Mo (1.6Mo) / 19.9cm x 47.6cm / 2352 x 5617 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Figurine goddess standing woman narrow dress straps dress decorated mesh motif rhombus dots vertical horizontal stripes necklace worn neck head feet left hand missing right hand hangs alongside body Neith mythology c 945–c 715 Bc Third Intermediate Period 22nd Dynasty Egypt Terracotta material unspecified height 11.3 cm width 3 cm weight 0.19 kg slender headless armless torso-shaped object partial arm remaining rendered dark brown black tones areas reddish greenish discoloration decorated across front repeating pattern metallic gold circular dots intersecting petal- shapes gold-decorated bodice area horizontal-striped triangular motifs gold collar- motif surface textured irregular edges small holes set plain light gray background.