Reading girl, clay, pressed into the form, hand modeled, clay, total: height: cm; width: cm; depth: 5 cm, ceramics, small sculptures, reading, sitting figure, early hellenistic, On a cube-shaped bench a young girl sits in a long, high-belted chiton and a wreath of leaves in her hair. She reads in a scroll that she holds on her lap. Scrolls were made of papyrus or parchment sheets glued together, on which the text was written in columns. While reading, the scroll was gradually unrolled on one side and rolled up again on the other side.

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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