Item 2280
Female with Headdress

JPEG Image of Figurine No. 2280
Fragment of female figurine preserving head with hair. Squarish face framed by unarticulated band of hair low on forehead and temples. Small eyes with upper and lower lids in relief. Rather small nose. Mouth abraded. Unusual features is additional clay added to sides of head, suggesting an applied cap, although broken, suggestive of a lion's skin. Possibly female molded face reused for male type--Herakles? Color: 5YR reddish yellow 6/6. (Munsell code)

Height: 3.34 cm
Width: 2.43 cm
Depth: 2.74 cm

Stratum: I
Locus: I7002
Basket: IV.I7.33

Mudbrick and stone fill, containing pebble to cobble-sized, with a few boulder-sized, stones concentrated mostly at the lower part of the locus. Excavated 4 m. from the North balk and 4 m. from the East balk at top level 481.87 m. (E) 481.80 m. (W) below Debris I7001 to bottom level 480.95 m. (E), 481.42 m. (W) above Cobble Layer I7004 and Debris I7006.

Now understood to be backfill in a wide trench cut across the area and into adjoining areas. This trench was probably dug to recover building stones.

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Ware Paste: Color--5YR yellowish red 6/6, Inclusions--some small lime, some small ceramics, Firing--no core, Hardness--hard. Exterior--slip 10YR white 8/2. Broken irregularly across neck and on left side of hair. Top of hair missing. Damage to nose and mouth. Solid - Single -Frontal mold. Chin to bottom of hair line: 1.25; Jaw to jaw below ears: 1.34; Outer eye to outer eye: 1.03; Width of left eye: 0.35; Width of right eye: 0.34; Height of left eye: 0.20; Height of right eye: 0.20; Length of nose: 0.60. Herakles head with lion skin cap? Re-use of female molded face for another type? 3rd c. B.C. or later?