They used to be colorful.
They used to bring comfort to the dead.

Tanagra figurines.

Now, in brownish color, covered with stony himation, are standing silently behind the glass in The British Museum.
Beautiful, small, barely noticed terracotta figures.
When they had been discovered, or let say dig out, they were enchanting with their appearance, fineness and reality look.
Why they were made?
One theory says, because the figurines were mainly found in graves, that they represented the dead person’s possessions.
But maybe not.
In 19th century this figures of the fashionable women received a name “the parisienne of the ancient world”.