Dama del Cerro de los Santos, also known as Gran Dama Oferente, is an Iberian

Iberians

The Iberians were a set of peoples that Greek and Roman sources identified with that name in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian peninsula at least from the 6th century BC...

 sculpture from the 2nd century BC, that is now in National Archaeological Museum of Spain

National Archaeological Museum of Spain

The National Archaeological Museum of Spain is a museum in Madrid, Spain, located beside the Plaza de Colón , sharing its building with the National Library....

 in Madrid

Madrid

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This limestone sculpture depicts a full-length standing female figure 1.3 meters high. It was found in 1870 in the sanctuary of Cerro de los Santos in Montealegre del Castillo

Montealegre del Castillo

Montealegre del Castillo is a municipality in Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 2,282....

 in Albacete

Albacete

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 province, Spain

Spain

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The statue is sometimes called the Gran Dama Oferente because she is holding a container in her two hands and appears to be offering it. She is richly clad in three overlapping robes clasped with a fibula, or brooch, at the neck. Braided hair falls past her three necklaces. She is wearing fitted shoes. A rodete or wheel headgear appears on one side of her hair; if there was a similar one on the other side, it has been broken off. Like another contemporary Phoenicia

Phoenicia

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n-influenced Iberian female sculpture, the Lady of Baza

Lady of Baza

The Lady of Baza is a famous example of Iberian sculpture by the Bastetani. It is a limestone female figure with traces of painted detail in a stuccoed surface that was found on July 22, 1971 by Francisco José Presedo Velo, at Baza, in the altiplano, the high tableland in the northwest of the...

, her drapery falls in a zigzag pattern.