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Ancient Art
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Explore image in Female figurine, Psi type
ca. 1300 B.C.
Terracotta, solid, with added reddish-brown slip
11.8 × 5.9 × 1.8 cm (4 5/8 × 2 5/16 × 11/16 in.)
Purchased with gifts from Ruth Elizabeth White and the Squibb Corporation
1989.71.1
Status:
On view
Culture:
Greek, Mycenaean
Period:
Late Bronze Age, Late Helladic
Classification:
Sculpture
Provenance:
Collection Horst Wagner, Berlin; sale of the above, Galerie Gunter Puhze, Freiburg, Germany; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., acquired from the above, 1989.
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions 1989,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1990): 122, ill.
“Catalogue of the Exhibition ‘An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art’,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994): 110, no. 15.
Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 259, ill.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
