Lady of Baza

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The impassive seated female figure of polychromed limestone is richly dressed and adorned with ear ornaments.

The Lady of Baza (la Dama de Baza) is a famous example of Iberian sculpture, a female figure of limestone 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 province of Granada. The town of Baza was the site of the Ibero-Roman city of Basti and, in one of its two necropoleis, the Cerro del Santuario, the Lady of Baza was recovered. She is seated in an armchair, and an open space on the side is thought to have contained ashes from a cremation.^[1]

The sculpture's name links it in the popular imagination to its more famous cousin, the Lady of Elche. After conservation, the sculpture, which dates to the fourth century BCE, joined the enigmatic Lady of Elche deposited in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain in Madrid. The chimera Biche of Balazote and the standing Gran Dama Oferente, also called Dama del Cerro de los Santos are exhibited in the same room of the museum.

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• Illustration of the Lady of Baza
• Article at Enciclopedia Libre

v • d • e Iberian sculpture Selected sculptures The Lady of Elche (pictured)  • The Lady of Guardamar  • The Lady of Baza  • The Bulls of Guisando  • The Sphinx of Agost  • The Biche of Balazote  • The Bull of Osuna  • The Lady of Cerro de los Santos