Terracotta head and torso of a woman late 5th–early 4th century Greek, Attic Terracotta figures such as this have traditionally been called dolls. Small-scale representations of human figures, mostly women, exist in a great variety of forms; they may have movable limbs, their limbs may be truncated as here, and they may have any number of attributes. Their role, therefore, certainly extended beyond child's play to rituals, the theater, and certainly the Terracotta head and torso of a woman 252515 Greek, Attic, Terracotta head and torso of a woman, late 5th?early 4th century ,

Terracotta head and torso of a woman late 5th–early 4th century Greek, Attic Terracotta figures such as this have traditionally been called dolls. Small-scale representations of human figures, mostly women, exist in a great variety of forms; they may have movable limbs, their limbs may be truncated as here, and they may have any number of attributes. Their role, therefore, certainly extended beyond child's play to rituals, the theater, and certainly the Terracotta head and torso of a woman 252515 Greek, Attic, Terracotta head and torso of a woman, late 5th?early 4th century , Terracotta , H. 4 13/16 in. ( cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fletcher Fund, 1926 ()

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