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figurine

human history
  • Description

    Figurine with back stand. Incomplete. Head heart shaped, broken across the top and on one corner.ridge across top of forehead indicates a headdress, possibly wideband, had been attached. One large indented earspool, the other broken off. Eyes slits, nose and mouth carefully formed, chin defined. Thickening at the sides and across the base of the neck. Torso flares out on the sides, possibly indicating a cape.

    The section below the cape, which looks like a skirt, has been broken off. Back of object flattish with a stand built out at waist height. Front has fired to a dark grey with many traces of white pigment in eyes, pores and crevices, traces of red in the mouth and near cape corner. The back is paler but also covered in white pigment remnants.

  • Accession Number
    2012.19.295
  • Accession Date
    10 Dec 2012
  • Other Id

    74 (unknown ID type)

    16552 (Asset Register)

  • Department

    Archaeology

figurine 2012.19.295

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