Statue of a woman, Spedos type
about 2600–2500 B.C.
Place of ManufactureGreece
Medium/TechniqueMarble from the Greek islands
DimensionsHeight x width: 111 x 21 cm (43 11/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit LineCentennial Purchase Fund
Accession number67.758
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceSaid to be from Kufonisi, a small island in the middle of the Cyclades. 1967: Münzen und Medaillen, Basel and André Emmerich Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, New York 10022 (shipped from Basel to New York in March, 1967); purchased by MFA from André Emmerich Gallery, September 13, 1967.
5th century
about 480 B.C.
about 2600–2500 B.C.
2nd–1st century B.C.
about A.D. 51–52 or later
about second half of the 3rd century A.D.
Later 1st–2nd century A.D.
about A.D. 48 or 49