{"product_id":"greek-boeotian-terracotta-plank-idol-of-a-goddess","title":"Greek Boeotian Terracotta Papades Plank Idol","description":"\u003cp\u003eAegean, central Greece, Archaic period, mid-to-late 6th century BC, ca. 550–500 BC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-modeled buff terracotta, nearly two-dimensional, with a tapering plank body rising from an oval\/ledge foot ring, short peg arms projecting and slightly forward-tapering at the shoulders, and a deeper, rounded head rising on a cylindrical neck and a geometric garment panel of vertical and hatched strokes in iron-oxide brown\/red slip.  The head wears an arched polos crown with a prominent inwardly rolled volute\/quiff on the forehead — the defining feature that identifies the figure as a goddess (commonly interpreted as Demeter, Hera, or Persephone), and the reason these idols are also called \"Papades\" after their priestly\/crowned appearance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese flat, plank-bodied goddess figures are one of the most distinctive votive\/funerary types of Archaic Boeotia, produced at centers such as Tanagra, Thebes, Ritsona, and Akraiphia, and recovered primarily from cemeteries and sanctuaries. They sit at the pivotal Archaic moment when Greek artisans are moving from the flat, frontal, stiff conventions inherited from Egyptian, Phoenician, and Syrian prototypes toward the fully three-dimensional treatment of the human body seen in contemporary kouros and kore statuary, a trajectory that culminates in the Classical and then Hellenistic achievements of the following centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSize: 5-1\/2 inches (14cm) high.   \u003cbr\u003eProvenance: New Jersey Collector.\u003cbr\u003eCompare similar example in The British Museum and read about the types in Higgins, Reynold, 'Tanagra and the Figurines' Princeton University Press 1987.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art for Eternity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53433500893498,"sku":"17511","price":2450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0775\/5120\/6714\/files\/17511z.jpg?v=1778443862","url":"https:\/\/howardnowes.com\/products\/greek-boeotian-terracotta-plank-idol-of-a-goddess","provider":"Art for Eternity","version":"1.0","type":"link"}