Statuettes standing or lying on one side
Type:
Sculpture
Year:
Parthian period (1st-2nd century A.D.)
Material and technique:
Alabaster
Origin:
From southern Mesopotamia
Inventory:
Inv. MB 258, 259, 300, 311, 312, 321, 400
Parthian alabaster statuettes are mostly standing female figures shown in the nude; some are dressed or half draped, lying on one side; some are seated male or female figures, or musicians. The female figures may be Aphrodite/Anahita, or participants in a funerary banquet or a religious ceremony. Many of these statuettes are multicolored and have two holes at the level of their elbows, for the insertion of mobile forearms.
