J5.31
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| Roster |
Date |
Author |
Record |
| Definition |
2008-08-26 |
sNP |
figurine
[Input file: S826SNP.j]
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| Description (summary) |
2008-08-26 |
sNP |
fragment of an animal figurine. Probably is the head of an animal with the mouth open: it could be a lion, but no traces of the mane are preserved. If we accept the suggestion of an animal head, we notice that the nose, and part of the ears and of the left side of its mouth is missing. Another suggestion is to turn the figurine, seeing a fragmentary body of a camel or a zebu (the lower part of the previous mouth has to be seen as a hump), missing his head, his anterior paws, and all the posterior part of his body. But this option seems less probable because the point where the neck should start doesn't looks like a broken surface.
[Input file: S826SNP.j]
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| 2008-09-24 |
jW |
The broken forebody of a humped animal.
[Input file: S924JW2.j]
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| Roster |
Date |
Author |
Record |
| Ware or Material, species |
2008-08-26 |
sNP |
clay
[Input file: S826SNP.j]
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| 2008-09-24 |
jW |
cl-baked
[Input file: S924JW2.j]
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| Color |
2008-08-26 |
sNP |
very pale brown
[Input file: S826SNP.j]
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| Color number (Munsell) |
2008-08-26 |
sNP |
10YR 7/3
[Input file: S826SNP.j]
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| 2008-09-24 |
jW |
10YR8/2
[Input file: S924JW2.j]
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| Condition |
2008-08-26 |
sNP |
broken
[Input file: S826SNP.j]
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| 2008-09-24 |
jW |
The front legs, parts of the head, and the hindquarters are missing.
[Input file: S924JW2.j]
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| Notes on items |
2014-03-30 |
rAH |
Once again, the angles chosen to photograph this object do not help with the identification. "Humped" animals are exceptionally rare; zebus are practically the only examples of such representations.
If photograph V21d7688 can be construed as a dorsal view of the forequarters, then one most interesting detail appears: the feet, not broken, each display marks in a triangular pattern. These marks are mere dots, and quite shallow. One might surmise that they mark the pads of an animal foot. The detail is similar to the cloverleaf pattern of dots that surrounds the penis of Felis 302. See Plate XL, page 516.
The appendage visible in photograph V21d7689 is difficult to explain; the representation appears to be in the process of modeling, as a fingerprint may be visible at the top of the so-called "appendage"/tab. The indentation is quite deep, yet the so-called tab does not appear to be finished. Perhaps the representation was discarded during the very process of its making-"unmade," as it were.
[Input file: Y401JW.j]
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[Input file: TX01JW.j]
