Kallos Gallery
Kallos Gallery
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Artworks
  • Fairs & Exhibitions
  • Catalogues
  • Insights
  • News
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Online Shop
Cart
0 items £
Checkout

Item added to cart

View cart & checkout
Continue shopping
Menu
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Greek, A Greek terracotta figure of a goddess, probably Cybele, Late Archaic, circa 525 - 480 BC
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Greek, A Greek terracotta figure of a goddess, probably Cybele, Late Archaic, circa 525 - 480 BC

Greek

A Greek terracotta figure of a goddess, probably Cybele, Late Archaic, circa 525 - 480 BC
Terracotta
Height: 39 cm
Greek, A Greek terracotta figure of a goddess, probably Cybele, Late Archaic, circa 525 - 480 BC
Sold
£ 3,800.00
0 in cart
Enquire
%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22artist%22%3EGreek%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22title_and_year%22%3E%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_title%22%3EA%20Greek%20terracotta%20figure%20of%20a%20goddess%2C%20probably%20Cybele%3C/span%3E%2C%20%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_year%22%3ELate%20Archaic%2C%20circa%20525%20-%20480%20BC%3C/span%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22medium%22%3ETerracotta%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22dimensions%22%3EHeight%3A%2039%20cm%3C/div%3E

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Thumbnail of additional image
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Thumbnail of additional image
The figure is wearing a long, fitted garment and is seated on a high throne with back rest extending out from behind the shoulders, her feet emerging from beneath her...
Read more
The figure is wearing a long, fitted garment and is seated on a high throne with back rest extending out from behind the shoulders, her feet emerging from beneath her hem on a footrest. Her hair is arranged in rows of curls around her forehead with a high stephane headdress above. She holds a couchant feline in her lap, probably a small lion.
Close full details

Provenance

Collection of Basil W.R. Jenkins, (1945 - 2020) Grover Beach, California. Jenkins was formerly curator at the Fowler Museum at UCLA

Literature

Such statuettes were made as votives to a deity. It is not always clear whether they represent the deity or the dedicator but these enthroned figures wearing elaborate headdresses, and particularly holding a lion, are probably goddesses. Hundreds of such statues were buried in trenches on the Acropolis after the Persians looted and burned Athens in 480 BC, however the type was manufactured in several places. For a similar example of a goddess with a lion, from Rhodes, now in the British Museum, see R. Higgins, Catalogue of Terracottas in the British Museum, London, 1954, p. 67, no. 132, pl. 24. For others in the Metropolitan Museum New York, see acc. no. 1980.303.5 and 06.1115 (for one holding a small animal).
Share
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Email
Previous
|
Next
3 
of  59
Manage cookies
Copyright © 2022 Kallos Gallery
Site by Artlogic
Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list
Send an email
View on Google Maps

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences