Polychrome terracotta statuette of a maenad

            This figure may represent a maenad, a follower of Dionysos, god of wine. She wears a wreath of ivy and korymboi (ivy berries), and her garment is draped to leave her right breast bare. Quite a bit of her original polychrome decoration remains. The bright pink pigment the root of the Rubia tinctorum (rose madder) plant, a relative of coffee and gardenias. It is also known as dyer’s madder. Rose madder could be used as a pigment by chemically adhering the dye to a metallic solid, such as alum.

Greek, South Italian, Tarentine, late 3rd century BCE. 

Met Museum, New York (11.212.18)

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Taken on: October 29, 2024

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