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title: Terracotta Figurine of a Baking Woman
author: Marsyas
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/14441/terracotta-figurine-of-a-baking-woman/
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license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
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# Terracotta Figurine of a Baking Woman

_Authored by Marsyas_

## Image File

[![Terracotta Figurine of a Baking Woman](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/14441.jpg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/14441.jpg)

## Image Caption

Terracotta figurine of a woman kneading pieces of bread or pancake, c. 500-475 BCE.

National Archaeological Museum, [Athens](https://www.worldhistory.org/Athens/).

This clay statuette shows a woman baking bread as one of her daily chores. That she is less likely to be an industrial baker can be perceived from the small scale of her tub and not a very large number of the rolls. The statuette can be a precursor of Tanagra figurines, sculpted depictions of girls and [women](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/women/) in their ordinary occupations or poses, which were bound to be mass-produced in Boeotia and [conquer](https://www.worldhistory.org/warfare/) the trans-[Hellenic](https://www.worldhistory.org/greece/) markets more than a [hundred years](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/Hundred_Years/) later.

## Cite This Work

### APA
Marsyas. (2021, August 20). Terracotta Figurine of a Baking Woman. *World History Encyclopedia*. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/14441/terracotta-figurine-of-a-baking-woman/>
### Chicago
Marsyas. "Terracotta Figurine of a Baking Woman." *World History Encyclopedia*, August 20, 2021. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/14441/terracotta-figurine-of-a-baking-woman/>.
### MLA
Marsyas. "Terracotta Figurine of a Baking Woman." *World History Encyclopedia*, 20 Aug 2021, <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/14441/terracotta-figurine-of-a-baking-woman/>.

## License & Copyright

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