Busto de Tanit / Deméter

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It's a female bust, created from a mold that depicts the image of a woman with classical facial features, styled with bands of wavy curls divided in the forehead and topped with a ribbon. On her head, she wears a conical and smooth kalathos, and her ears appear with the lower lobe pierced to hold earrings. The figure still retains remnants of white slip and reddish-toned polychromy on the hair and lips. This figure has its prototypes in the island of Sicily, from where it probably originates due to its ceramic composition. Similar parallels can be found between Sicilian coroplastics and those of Magna Graecia in the early or mid-fourth century BC. The terracotta that likely originally represented the goddess Demeter, its discovery on Ibiza makes it possible to link it with local deities and can be assimilated with the Carthaginian goddess Tanit