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Female Worshiper
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About this work
This extremely rare Minoan bronze statuette represents a girl worshiping a deity. It was probably left as a dedication to a divinity. She wears a flounced skirt over a sleeved robe open at the front. The figure shows a remarkable degree of detail, including looped earrings, bracelets, and a necklace. Her shaved hairstyle, not found on any other Minoan bronze statuette, matches that of painted figures in roughly contemporary frescoes uncovered on the island of Thera, north of Crete. Its excellent condition, rarity, fine detail, and balanced proportions set it apart from other statuettes of its type to have survived.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFemale Worshiper, c. 1600–1500 BCE. Crete, Minoan, middle Minoan III–late Minoan I. Bronze; overall: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2002.89
