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| Female Half-Figure Mold (about 350-300 BC) Taranto Terracotta Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Taranto, inv. 151778 [Cat. no. 12] |
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Female Half-Figure Mold (about 350-300 BC)
This mold was employed in one of the many Tarantine workshops supplying terracottas for use in religious rituals. The mold created a finished terracotta of the bust of a female offering-bearer, a worshipper who presented gifts to a divinity. She would have held a deep cup (skyphos) and a basket of fruit. Such a reference to the abundance of nature may relate to the cult of Demeter, the goddess responsible for the fertility of the earth.Page 5 of 7 | On the next page: Tarantine Jewelry