Seated Goddess (Primary Title)
Unknown (Artist)
This seated goddess closely resembles examples from Athens, where hundreds of terracotta statuettes were buried on the Acropolis after the Persian sack of the Acropolis in 480 BC. Like the nearby standing figure, the goddess has an “Archaic smile.”
T. Catesby Jones Collection
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