Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
The British Museum recently bought by auction a number of terracottas in a lot together, of which two (1953, 4–10, 1 and 2) are of more than usual interest (Fig. 1). These are virtually identical and must have been made in the same mould. They are hollow, moulded front and back, and open underneath; there is no vent in the back. The modelling of the front is summary but careful: that of the back is sketchy in the extreme; this is due not to careless moulding, but to the cursory treatment of the back of the model from which the mould was made. The clay is rather coarse but homogeneous, pale orange in colour, and contains a fair amount of mica.
1 E.g. the ‘Hera of Cheramyes’ in the Louvre and the pieces associated with it, especially Payne, and Young, , Archaic Marble Sculpture, pl. 20.Google Scholar
2 E.g. BMC Terracottas (1903) B 207 = Winter, , Die Typen der figürlichen Terrakotten III, Pt. I, 42. 4.Google Scholar
3 E.g. Winter, op. cit. 114 and 125.
4 E.g. MA XXXII, pl. XXXVIII. 9 (about 500 B.C.); Winter, op. cit. 114. 1 (about 470 B.C.).
5 See BMC Coins, Cyrenaica, clxxxviii.