Standing with weight on her right leg, her left leg bent at the knee, her left arm lowered and her right bent at the elbow originally held up to her face to hold her drapery which would have been pulled over her head in a typical pudictia pose, wearing a mantle over a chiton, the diagonal folds of the mantle contrasting with the vertical folds of the chiton, a deep concave mortice at the shoulders for insertion of the separately made head (now missing)

27 in. (68.5 cm.) high

The John Reid Collection; sold Christie's, London, 17-18 December 1998, lot 500.

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The term pudicitia refers to the chastity or modesty of women and is used to describe the pose commonly adopted by women for funerary statues and reliefs.