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Limestone statue of a female figure

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Title/s	Limestone statue of a female figure
Category	figure
Name	statuette
Description	woman, holding bowl. This type of statue is typical of Archaic Greek art and is thought to have been influcenced by Egyptian statuary of the Late Period. This type of statue would be dedicated at a sanctuary.
Field Collection	Naukratis Egypt
Dimensions	height 20 cm
Period	archaic
Date	680 B.C. — 520 B.C.
Provenance	given: the Egypt Exploration Fund 1887 (Filtered for: Antiquities)
Documentation	[Unknown: Samos 7] Source title: Samos ( [comments: 115] Budde, Ludwig Nicholls, Richard (1967) Catalogue of the Greek and Roman sculpture in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1967) [comments: no. 18, pl. 4]
Material/s	limestone
Accession Number	GR.2.1887 (Antiquities) (Reference Number: 66072; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-14)

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Limestone statue of a female figure