Lady of Baza
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The Lady of Baza (la Dama de Baza) is a famous example of Celtiberian art, an early Iberian female figure of stone with traces of painted detail, found on July 22, 1971 at Baza, in the altiplano, the high tableland in the northwest of the province of Granada. Baza is the site of the Ibero-Roman city of Basti and, in the Cerro del Santuario, one of its two necropolis, the Lady of Baza was recovered. She is seated in an armchair, and a space within her back is thought to have contained the ashes of a cremation.
The sculpture has been given a journalistic name that links it in the popular imagination to its more famous cousin, the Lady of Elx. After conservation in Madrid, the sculpture, dated to the 4th century BCE, joined the enigmatic Lady of Elx deposited in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain in Madrid. The chimera Bicha de Balazote is exhibited in the same museum room.
[edit] See also
- Dama del Cerro de los Santos
[edit] External links
- Francisco Umbral, "The Lady of Baza: Spanish artistic centralism": a Spanish novelist wittily calls for the return of the sculpture, in a 1973 essay from his Diary of a Snob (English)
- Illustration of the Lady of Baza
- Article at Enciclopedia Libre
