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Terracotta figurines are a wide range of small figurines made throughout the time span of Ancient Greece, and one of the main types of Ancient Greek pottery. Early figures are typically religious, modelled by hand, and often found in large numbers at religious sites, left as votive offerings .
'Psi' type female figurines form the sanctuary of Athena Pronaia, Delphi Archaeological Museum Tau-, Psi- and phi- type Greek terracotta figurines date back to 1450–1100 BC in Mycenaean Greece . They were typically small (about 10cm high), made of terracotta , and were found in tombs, shrines and settlement areas.
Tanagra figurine representing woman sitting. Tanagra was an unimportant city in antiquity. The city had come to the attention of historians and archeologists during the early 19th century after war broke out between the Turks and their allies, the British and the French, following a warning of a French invasion.
Greek terracotta figurine or Tanagra figurine, 2nd century BCE; height: 29.2 cm. The Ancient Greeks' Tanagra figurines were mass-produced mold-cast and fired terracotta figurines, that seem to have been widely affordable in the Hellenistic period, and often purely decorative in function.
Majapahit Terracotta is the terracotta art and craft dated from Majapahit era circa 13th to 15th century. Significant terracotta earthenware artifacts from this period were discovered in Trowulan, East Java. Over the years many terracotta sculptures and artifacts have been discovered as a result of agricultural activities, building roads etc.
Veiled dancer, Tanagra terra cotta figure, 7 inches high, c. 150-100 B.C.E, Louvre. In December 1870, at a site called Tanagra in Greece, archaeologists unearthed a group of Hellenistic terra cotta figurines bearing traces of original polychrome. The discovery caused a sensation, because it provided firm evidence supporting the theory that ...