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Running Head: A Compare and Contrast of Two Statuettes

A Compare and Contrast of Two Statuettes
Mary Karr
ART 205 – Art Appreciation
November 24, 2007

A Compare and Contrast of Two Statuettes
I have chosen as the subject of my essay to contrast and compare two female statuettes from ancient cultures. The first is an ancient Egyptian statuette named The Offering Bearer which was discovered about 1920 in the tomb of Meketre in Thebes and appears to have been made around 1985 B.C.E. by an unknown. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007). The second is an unnamed figurine commonly referred to as Statuette of A Standing Woman. This statuette, whose artist is unknown, is one of several figurines collectively called the Tanagra Figurines. They are named after the city where most of them were discovered. They were discovered in the late 1800's through the early 1900's and they date to the last quarter of the 4th century B.C.E. to the early 3rd century B.C.E. (Department of Greek......

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