Female figurine, Psi type | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1300 B.C.

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art

Medium: Terracotta, solid, with added reddish-brown slip
Dimensions: 4 5/8 × 2 5/16 × 11/16 in. (11.8 × 5.9 × 1.8 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with gifts from Ruth Elizabeth White and the Squibb Corporation
Accession Number: 1989.71.1
Culture: Greek, Mycenaean
Period: Late Bronze Age, Late Helladic
Classification: Sculpture
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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

"Catalogue of the Exhibition 'An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art'," in "An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994), 110, no. 15

Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 259, ill

"Acquisitions 1989," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1990), 122, ill

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

figurines

Subject

women

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