Enthroned Cybele Statuette (c.400-300 BCE)

3D Model

This Hellenistic terracotta statuette presents the goddess Cybele in a compact but remarkably powerful form. Seated on a throne and holding a feline companion, she appears not as an ordinary woman but as a divine presence marked by authority, protection, and command over the natural world. Though small in scale and partly restored, the figure preserves an iconography rich in meaning, bringing together the language of motherhood, sovereignty, and sacred power in the Greek world.

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Credit: “Tanagra statuette” (https://skfb.ly/pFPuU) by Global Digital Heritage and GDH-Afrika is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).