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Terracotta Votive Sculpture of a Woman

SKU P.0213
Circa

100 AD to 300 AD

Dimensions

9.75″ (24.8cm) high x 3.5″ (8.9cm) wide

Medium

Terracotta

Origin

Jordan

Gallery Location

S Korea


 

This elegant woman was once a votive gift to the gods of pagan Rome. We can imagine that the person who placed this offering at some ancient shrine was a woman not unlike the sculpted one. What did she wish for so long ago? Health, good fortune and happiness? What person today–even after the passage of centuries–could wish for anything different from life?

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