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Figurine of a girl holding a tambourine (tympanon)
Greek
Early Hellenistic Period
about 325 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia, Tanagra
Medium/Technique
Tanagra terracotta
Dimensions
Height: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number01.7860
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionLittle girl standing with a hoop at her left side. Pink and cream-color on stephane; light reddish-brown on hair; black on eyes; red on lips; traces of blue on chiton. Greenish blue on rim of hoop and red on interior.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Paris, said (& truly) to be from Aegina); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, December 1901