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A Statuette from Norway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Extract

The British Museum has recently acquired a small bronze statuette, which is of some interest, not for its artistic merit, but for the probable place of its discovery. The statuette, 2⅞ inches high, represents a woman, who is dressed in a long chiton, which folds over so as to form a sort of cape and has short sleeves, leaving the arms bare from above the elbows. She is standing with her feet close together and holds her skirt with her left hand in the familiar ‘Spes’ attitude. Part of the left foot and the right arm from the elbow are broken away. Her hair falls in long tresses over her neck and shoulders, and is indicated by incised lines. Another incised line seems to represent a necklace.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1906

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References

1 See a paper on this subject by Prof. Ridge way and Mr. Reginald Smith in the forthcoming part of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries.

2 See Müller, Sophus, Nordische Altertums Kunde, i. p. 316 ffGoogle Scholar.