Woman from a Funerary Naiskos in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, October 2009

Woman from a funerary monument
about 330–325 B.C.

Dimensions: Height: 201 cm (79 1/8 in.)

Material: Marble from Mount Pentelikon near Athens

Classification: Sculpture

Accession Number: 98.642

The over life-sized standing woman is carved in very high relief, with traces of the background visible on the figure's left side. She wears a chiton underneath the himation that is draped over her head, covers the upper part of her right arm, passes across her torso, and is gathered in her raised left hand. Bearing the weight of her frame on her left leg, she bends and turns her right leg away her body. With her downcast head, the figure gazes to her left. Her hair is roughly carved into parallel rows of wavy locks that are crowned by a braided "tiara."

Condition: Missing her right forearm and hand at the elbow. Large mortise at the elbow of the right hand and square dowel hole visible on the right side of the figure. The nose is a plaster restoration and parts of the right foot and plinth are marble restorations. Lips filed down. Drapery edges smoothed off. Worn surface with pitting in the marble.



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