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Fragment of female pillar figurine, preserving schematically rendered head on elongated neck. Bulbous head
with rounded tip rising from back of head. Face off center in relation to body and skewed slightly to proper
left. Eyes indented with protruding beak-like nose. Chin tilts to proper right.
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Color: 2.5YR light red 6/6. (Munsell code)
Height: 2.65 cm
Width: 2.06 cm
Depth: 2.54 cm
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Stratum: VIB
Locus: K8002
Basket: IV.K8.88
Destruction debris containing burnt brick fragments, charred beams, and pebble to
cobble-sized stones. Located between 1.00 m. and 4.50 m. from the North balk and between
1.00 m. and 4.75 m. from the East balk at top levels 481.73 m. (E), 482.32 m. (W) below
L. K8001 to bottom level 480.77 m. above Surfaces K8003 and K8015. Also above wall K8014.
Runs to the west face of Wall K8006, the south face of Wall K8007, to Pillars K8004 and K8005,
both faces of Wall K8014.
Much of the materials recovered in K8002 appear to have
originated in the second story of the Iron II house exposed in Areas K8 and L8. A saddle
quern found in the southern half of the balk between K8 and L8 may have also fallen from
the upper floor, judging from the charred beams on top of which the quern rested. Next to
it was found a large krater. Also in the South balk was found an oil lamp with other vessels
(Photo 1610) which might also have come from the upper floor. Loomweights and implements related
to grinding, all of which were found in L. K8002, show that many domestic activities took place
on the second floor of this house.
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Handmade. Ware Paste: Color--2.5YR light red 6/6, Inclusions--some small limestones,
Firing--dark gray core, Hardness--hard. Trace of paint 10YR white 8/1. Iron II. Broken horizontally at neck.
Head and neck formed simply by single roll of clay. Back of head with rounded tip fashioned by pulling clay
of head backwards and upwards and slightly smoothing the tip. Eyes simply rendered as indentations formed by
inserting the sides of the thumb and forefinger to front of head and applying pressure; at the same time pulling
forward, the beak-like nose is formed. Chin fashioned by dragging the side of the thumb along the area of the
lower face; in the case of this fragment, the "off center" aspect of the head is due to dragging the thumb
diagonally instead of horizontally. 8th-7th c. B.C.
Cf. Nancy Lapp, The Third Campaign at Tell el-Ful: The Excavations of 1964 (AASOR 45), Plate 32:4.
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