Female statue; Tanagra, Boeotia, 3rd century BC.

Female statue; Tanagra, Boeotia, 3rd century BC.
Terracotta.
It presents mineral concretions and slight faults.
It has an old inventory number on the back.
Measurements: 25,5 x 8 x 6 cm.
Tanagra, also called Tanagraois, was a city of Beocia, near the border with Attica, in a territory called Pemandride, which produced the best wine of Beocia. Perched high up, with its temples separated from the houses, it had an important necropolis. Of particular note are some human figures made in terracotta and called "tanagrines", fashionable in the ancient Greek world from the late fourth century BC to the late third century BC, found mainly in Hellenistic tombs, but also in the temples, and found in large quantities from the last third of the nineteenth century approximately. They were part of the trousseaus, and generally belonged to the Attic school of sculpture, with a strong influence of the school of Praxiteles (as seen in the present case by the curve that forms the figure at the hips, "invention" of this sculptor and therefore known as "Praxitelian curve"), with faces of sweet expression and a certain languid air, and probably made in Athenian workshops in many cases. Similar discoveries have been made in Myrina (present-day Turkey), Cyrene (Italy) and Alexandria (Egypt).