Ca. 200 AD. Middle-Imperial Roman. A beautifully preserved female terracotta figure standing with her weight on her right leg, her left bent forward at the knee, her left hand forward, her right arm akimbo. She is dressed like an elite woman of the Middle Imperial period, wearing a high-belted chiton and a himation pulled up over her right shoulder and knotted between her legs, with folds cascading below the knot and along her sides. Her wavy, centre-parted hair is tied in a bun at the back of her head. The bright orange colour of the clay may indicate a North African provenance. Good condition. This figure may have been a votive offering to a goddess in the manner of the female terracotta figurines found in 2009/2010 at Alexandria in Egypt in the Boubasteion - a temple built for the Graeco-Egyptian goddess Bubastis, the equivalent of the Greek Artemis. The figurines found in the Boubasteion were buried as an ex-voto for the goddess Bubastis, who had a protective function and a fertility character in Ptolemaic Egypt. For more information, see Zerefos, V., Zerefos, C. S., & Vardinoyannis, M. V. (2018). Hellenistic Alexandria: Celebrating 24 centuries. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 51-60. Size: L:185mm / W:95mm ; 292g. Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market before 2000.