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Description: | This figure is depicted with its knees flexed and hands raised, palm outwards in a praying. The tail falls behind in a shallow curve, ending in a slightly bulbous tip. The muscles at the nape of the neck are well marked. The bare skin around the rump forms a depression of figure of eight shape. The right ear is pierced, evidently by a drill after casting, and a gold earring which is threaded through is likely to be ancient. The forepart of the right foot is missing and the tail has been fractured and repaired recently. The surface shows a red patination of cuprous oxide interspersed with patches of malachite green, particularly on the abdomen. Short rectangular-sections hang beneath each foot indicate that the figure was once fixed in a separate base. Description Source: Helen Coleman | Subjects: | sculpture in the round animal figure animal figurine figurine | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=581... | Go to resource |
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