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Agrigento: Seated female figurine with headdress (5th c. BC)
Agrigento: Seated female figurine (Mus.Agrigento; photo Athena Review 2004)
This seated female fgurine (S 900) has a tall headdress (polos) associated with female divinities in the cult of Demeter and Persephone at Agrigento. It belongs to a group of figurines of women wearing varied dress with polos, dating to the 5th century BC.
The figurine retains traces of white paint.
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