Female Perirrhanterion Figure

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Female Perirrhanterion Figure

This female figure, made of Pentelic marble, is one of three statuettes that held a perirrhanterrrion on their heads. Perirrhanterria were shallow ritual water basins made of bronze or stone (like the diagram on the bottom right of the picture). They were supported by three or more kore statues who often held leashes attached to lions. This late-7th c. BCE statue and the fragment was found in Boeotia in 1896 and is 0.42 m in height. Athens National Museum.