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northmagneticpole:

#nationalsandwichday has us thinking about a key sandwich ingredient: bread. In this ancient #terracotta from the island of Cyprus, a woman is shown leaning over an oven to bake bread, throwing disks of dough onto the hot walls. Makers of terracotta figurines during this period often represented scenes from everyday life, sometimes placing the works in tombs to “remind” the dead of their activities in life. You can see this object and other archaic art from Cyprus in Gallery 174. ____ Terracotta woman baking bread, ca. 600–480 B.C. Cypriot. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76 #themet-The Met