Terracotta female figure ca. 1400-1300 B.C. Helladic, Mycenaean This tau-type figurine has the conventional hollow, columnar stem with the head rendered somewhat larger in proportion to the body. Characteristically, the figure is high waisted with arms, rendered as singly applied strips of clay, folded neatly over the breasts. She wears a long garment, simply decorated with two vertical lines down the front and back. The figurine's coiffure is particularly distinct, with a plait that is rendered over the top of the headdress and down the back of the neck. A fringe of hair peeks out from under the edge of an elaborately festooned polos.. Terracotta female figure 253493 Helladic, Mycenaean, Terracotta female figure, ca. 14001300 B.C., Terracotta, H. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 m). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fletcher Fund, 1935 (35.11.16)