Ancient Female Figurines

A range of ancient clay figurines representing women, showcasing diverse styles from different cultures, each with unique adornments and artistic expressions.

Standing female figure, 250 BCE - 300 CE, 5 3/8 x 3 x 1 1/8 in. (13.7 x 7.6 x 2.9 cm), Earthenware, Mexico, 3rd century BCE - 4th century CE

Japanese Warrior, Haniwa Tomb Figure, c300-550. Artist: Unknown.

Hen. Japan. Date: 300 AD-552 AD. Dimensions: 35 × 35.8 × 15 cm (13 3/4 × 14 1/8 × 5 7/8 in.). Earthenware. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Prehistory, Cyprus, Bronze Age. Clay model representing libation scene. From Kotchati necropolis.

Ceramic vessel, erotic art Nazca culture 100AC-800AC Perú.

Gelede Helmmaske zu Ehren der Figur der Frau Gelede helmet mask to honor the figure of women, Yoruba, Nigeria, 20th century, carved and painted wood, MEB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 23171327

IDOLO DE MADERA. Location: METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. NEW YORK.

Mesoamerica. Anthropomorphic figure. Veracruz. Gulf of Mexico. 300-900 BC. Mexico. Museum of Cutures of the World. Barcelona. Spain.

Joseph de Crefft, 1929-1936, Stone, pollensa museum, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

Panel from a Hathor Column. Dimensions: H. 44.8 cm (17 5/8 in); w. 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in). Dynasty: Dynasty 30-early Ptolemaic Period. Date: 380-200 BC.The panel may have originally formed one of the four faces of a wooden Hathor column for a light open structure. The outer shrines of the divine naos on the river barques or processional barques of certain goddesses are sometimes depicted with columns having Hathor capitals. Other uses are certainly possible: although much earlier than this example, the New Kingdom tomb of Ipuy at Thebes depicts the construction of an openwork wooden catafalque for the deified king Amenhotep I that has a large Hathor emblem at the focus of what appears to be latticework (see 30.4.116). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Italy, Sicily, White-ground lekythos (vase used to store oil) depicting a young warrior, painted by Bowdoin Painter, 460/450 B.C.

Seatedfigurine. Artist: Unknown

Statues of Kleobis and Biton. Two brothers of Argos. 7th century BC. Delphi Archaeological museum. Author: Polymides (Argos. 7th BCE).

Wooden maternity sculpture from Cameroon, Africa. By Kwayep of Bamana. Dated 1912

Standing Warrior 500 B.C.-A.D. 300 Indonesia (Java). Standing Warrior. Indonesia (Java). 500 B.C.-A.D. 300. Bronze. Bronze and Iron Age period. Metalwork

Seated Figure, 6th century BCE - 6th century CE, 8 1/2 x 3 1/8 x 2 15/16 in. (21.59 x 7.94 x 7.46 cm), Terracotta, Nigeria, 6th century BCE - 6th century CE

New Zealand, North Island, Auckland, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Maori Court, traditional Maori carving

Ushabti of pharaoh Rameses VI, calcite, 20th dynasty, 1143-1136 BC, tomb of Rameses VI, valley of the kings, Thebes, Egypt, collection of the British Museum.

Detail of a Mayan pottery incense burner, 8th century. Artist: Unknown

Group sculpture of Akhenathon kissing his daughter from Tell-el-Amarna

Headdress: Janus. Culture: Yoruba peoples, Ijebu group. Dimensions: H. 24 in. (61 cm). Date: 19th century.This dramatic headdress is more severe, geometric, and linear than most familiar Yoruba sculptures. With extraordinary mastery of a single block of wood, the sculptor has created an expressive work built entirely out of pure geometric shapes. The face is a disk, the nose a triangle, the cap a hemisphere, and the lips two bars, but the whole is a human face of great beauty. Overlying that face playfully and mysteriously is the long-nosed face of a horned animal that reuses elements of the larger face in a double entendre.Ijebu water-spirit masks such as this example are used in performances that are part of a festival known as Agbo. This mask's two hornlike projections are braids that recall coiffures worn by Ijebu priests, queens, and elders. It was apparently worn by a performer, whose body was concealed by a costume attached around the top of the wooden cap, hiding it completel

Upper Part of a Seated Figure in a Long Kilt Middle Kingdom ca. 1800-1650 B.C. Wearing a high-waisted kilt, this man, perhaps from the lower echelons of the elite, was likely seated with his arms and hands flat on his thighs. His shaved head, a feature in earlier sculptures signifying purity before the gods, here more likely reflects the fashion of the later Middle Kingdom. View more. Upper Part of a Seated Figure in a Long Kilt. ca. 1800-1650 B.C.. Serpentinite

Standing Female Figure

Sculpture depicting God Anubis depicted as a jackal. Dated in the New Kingdom. Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities. Stockholm. Sweden.

statue of an Egyptian Noble. From a Sixth Dynasty tomb, 2323-2150 BC

Male Figure ca. 5th century India. Male Figure 38394

Painted Canopic Jar 1450 B.C. Egypt

Figure from reliquaries ensemble. From the Kota people. Made from wood, copper and brass. From Gabon.

'Kneeling Adorer'. Siam (now Thailand). Bangkok art, Late 18th - early 19th century. Dimensions: h. 50,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Asia Minor. Ancient Art. Maiden in Wedding adornment. 100-50 BC. Kymi (Aeolis).

Ancient terracotta figurines from the 12th Century BC

Statue of Nephtys, 21st Dynasty (c. 1070 - 946 BC). Cachette of the priests of Ajnun, Deir el-Bahari Statue of Isis wearing transparent dress tied with long belt. Her wig is circled and tied with band. She is sketching her arms to receive the deceased

Benin empire. southern Nigeria. Benin city, Edo. Figure with palms raised. 1550-1700. Museum of world cultures. Barcelona. Spain.

Elam. Moulded clay brick panel: Elamite goddess. Temple of Inshushinak, Susa, 2000 BCE. Louvre Museum. Paris.

Huaxtec culture terracotta figurine. Artist: Unknown

Terracotta statuette of Eros flying 3rd century B.C. Greek, South Italian, Tarentine Flying, arms and left leg extended.. Terracotta statuette of Eros flying 248612

Asian Art. Fantastic animal. Loess, glue paints, moulding. Dunhuang ( Silk Roa), China. 8th century. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Statuette of standing man with inscription in South Arabian script (Qatabanic language) on the base: (Tabbakarib son of Aglum). Alabaster. Qatabanite period, 2nd century BC, Yemen, Qataban Kingdom

Statue of the Goddess Taweret; Late Dynastic Period, Luxor, Egypt. 945-343 BC. In Ancient Egyptian religion, Taweret is the protective ancient Egyptian goddess of childbirth and fertility.

Wooden Boy Attendant. Korea, Joseon (1392-1910), 18th century. Sculpture. Carved wood with pigments

Head of Ni-o with Closed Mouth, 1200s. Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333). Wood; overall: 76.8 x 37.8 cm (30 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.).

Figure Pendant. Culture: Chiriquí. Dimensions: Height 4-1/8 in.. Date: 11th-16th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Lid of funerary urn with jaguar god and two jaguar figures, Popol Vuh Museum, Guatemala City, Guatemala City, Guatemala, Central America

Terracotta Corinth Doll, 350 BC. Artist: Unknown.

GERMANY, DRESDEN, ALBERTINUM, GREEN VAULT, DISPLAY OF TREASURES

The Warrior, Olmec Sculpture, Parc Museum La Venta, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, Central America

Ivory female figurines. Ancient Egyptian, Early Middle Predynastic, 4400-3900 BC, British museum, London, England, Great Britain.

toro del parque, museo arqueologico y de historia de Elche Alejandro Ramos Folqués, Elche, Alicante, comunidad Valenciana, Spain, Europe.

Museo de la Romanización, Calahorra, La Rioja , Spain, Europe.

Wooden statue of Kaape (Sheikh el-Beled), an ancient Egyptian scribe and priest who lived between the late 4th Dynasty and the early 5th Dynasty, 2500 BC

Estela de arenisca tipo cabeza cortada, III a.C., San Esteban de Mesterika, Menaka, Arkeologi Museoa, museo aqueologico, Bilbao, Bizkaia, Pais Vasco, Spain, Europe

Funerary Mask 10th-12th century Lambayeque (Sicán) This mask, made of hammered sheet gold alloy and covered in red pigment, once adorned the body of a deceased ruler on Perus north coast. Powerful dynasties arose in this region between the eighth and the fourteenth centuries A.D. and amassed great riches in gold and silver before they were conquered by the Inca Empire in the late fifteenth century. The lords of these dynasties were the patrons of vast workshops where finely crafted ornaments and ceremonial vessels were created (see 1991.419.62; 66.196.27). At death, the lords were buried deep in monumental mud-brick platform mounds along with large numbers of objects of precious metal, shell, and cloth. In addition to beakers, disks, and other ornaments, the burials included large masks made of sheet gold. As many as five masks were placed into one burial: one attached to the head of the textile-wrapped body, and the other four stacked at the feet of the deceased.This mask was made of

Etruscan art. Bronze shaft-end with head of a griffin. 660-575 BC. Chiusi, Italy. British Museum. London, UK.

Der heilige Martin von Tours Saint Martin of Tours, polychrome carving, 13th century, from the area of Barbastro, Huesca, Girona art museum, Girona, Catalonia, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/TOLOxBALAGUERx 22283367

Mesopotamian stele, usurped by the Elamites. A god with orant (damaged). Sun and moongod symbols. Susa, Iran, Basalt. 12th BCE. Louvre Museum.

Ceramic vessel, depicting prisoner of war Moche culture 100 AC-800 AC Perú.

MASCARA PINTADA-ARTE PRIMITIVO. Location: METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. NEW YORK CITY.

Ceramic bridge and spout vessel with a human figure with vegetal motifs. From Peru. Dated 3rd Century

Mesopotamia. City state of Uruk. Stone bull. Late Uruk Period. 3300-3000 BC. Probalby from Uruk. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.

Apsara 11th - 12th century AD Kalchurian period, found at Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotox

Bull. 1300 -100 BC. Bronze Age. Talaiotic Culture. Sculpture on bronze. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia. Proc: SPAIN. BALEARES.

Jarrón de cerámica verde y manganeso, siglo XIV. Museu Comarcal de Manresa.

ESTATUA DE ARTEMIS DE EFESO - COPIA DEL ORIGINAL DEL SIGLO II AC - ALABASTRO. Location: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY. NEAPEL. ITALIA. DIANA (MYTHOLOGY). DIANA DE EFESO. DIANA EFESINA.

Terracotta figure of a horseman, Greek, from Tanagra, Boeotia, Greece, c550 BC. Artist: Unknown

Pre-Columbian art: Chimu gold burial mask, with shell ear-plugs and dark green stone eyes, from northern Peru, 1100 - 1400 AD. This mask would have been placed on the face of a mummy.

Gilded statue of King Tutankhamen standing with a spear on a reed float. From his tomb. 1323 BC. 18th dynasty, New Kingdom

Female statuette, probably the Great Goddess of Babylon. Artist: Unknown

Pair of warriors in bronze, from Teti, Sardinia Region, Italy

Excavated terracotta exhibits, Han Yang Ling Museum, Zhangjiawan, near Xian, Shaanxi Province, China

Pre-islamic cultures. Arabian Peninsula 4thBC-1stBC. Statue head. Graves stones. Representation of the burie. 3stBC-1stBC. Alabaster. Yemen.

Etruscan civilization, Kist handle in bronze, portraying two warriors carrying wounded comrade, From Preneste, Palestrine Hill (Rome)

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