| Inventory Number: | PNT 114 | |
| Title: | Nurse and Child | |
| Description: | The adult figure is broken away below the waist, and nose is missing. Moulded hollow; completely modeled behind. The hair of both figures and the draper on the back of the nurse has been freely retouched after removal from the mould. Glaze applied at the joint. An aged female, with wrinkled brow and cheeks, clasps a child to her bosom, kissing him. The infant is naked. The nurse wears a peplos, girt at the waist. On her head lay a wreath of leaves of which only a few leaves remain. Clay: Fine, buff. Both figures were completely covered with white paint. | |
| Context: | From a disturbed area north of the retaining wall of the Assembly Place, Period III. | |
| Negatives: | 81-394, 77-11-20, 77-11-21 | |
| Dimensions: | P.H. 0.074 | |
| Chronology: | Late third or early second century B.C. | |
| Date: | 5 March 1931 | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia Suppl. 7 (1943), no. 89, p. 151, 152, 153, fig. 64. | |
| References: | Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 7 (1943) Images (6) Card: PNT 114 Card: PNT 114 |
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