in all probability, a goddess of maternity.2 Inthe statuette reproduced in our Fig. 108, the treatment is lessfree, its precision is a little dry and hard. The personage repre-sented employs the gesture proper to the nursing goddesses (seeVol. I. Fig. i6), although robed from head to foot. Her… … Fig. 108.—Terra-cotta statuette. Height 4.5 inches. Louvre. perhaps, throughout the Persian domination, and even as late asthe Seleucidae and Parthians. The types consecrated by religioustradition were repeated, but repeated with a hesitating and in-different hand, and with little reference to…
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