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Female Figurine

22th-21th millenium BC

Mammoth ivory

H 8.9 cm

Malta settlement, Siberia

This stylized figure is flattened, the head round with a wide, flat face with eyes and nose marked. Incised lines convey breasts, arms, legs and genitalia. Such stylization and generalization in representing women are characteristic of the Malta artistic tradition.

 

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