Girls Playing Ephedrismos Terracotta Figurine in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, January 2018

Girls playing Ephedrismos

Greek

Early Hellenistic Period

late 4th–early 3rd century B.C.

Place of Manufacture: Greece, Corinthia, Corinth

Medium/Technique: Terracotta

Dimensions Overall: 24.8 x 11 cm (9 3/4 x 4 5/16 in.)
Width of Base: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.)

Credit Line Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900

Accession Number03.894

Collections: Ancient Greece and Rome

Classifications: Sculpture

Description: Ephedrismos group. A woman in a double, girdled, short-sleeved chiton, with hair parted in the middle, strides to left carrying on her back another woman similarly dressed who wears a sakkos. Base restored.

Provenance: By 1903: with Edward Perry Warren (according to his records: Said Corinthian); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24, 1903


Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/151843/girls-playing-ephedrismos