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1903.11.0225 :: fragment

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"A grotesque figure is applied to a pottery fragment, whose thickness indicates that the vessel was a large one. The head is of a model that occurs more frequently than any other, with a large mouth, deeply sunk round eyes, pointed ears and ear-plugs. Comparison with the copious material of heads of figures will at once make it clear that this was never meant to represent a human face. In many details it more closely resembles the monkey figures. The hands, which are folded on the chest, are holding the ends of a cloth laid over its shoulders. It is not altogether impossible that these lappets in fact constituted the stems of leaf ornaments resembling those issuing from heads of the same type, although of smaller size, which are depicted by Hoernle (1902 pl., IX fig 7)."

Montell 1936, sid 170.

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