Neolithic standing figurine
6th–5th millennium B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Dimensions
- 6.4 × 3.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-192770
The minimal amount of detail preserved on this abstract human form includes short arms pinched from the sides, and a horizontal projection believed to be the breasts. With so little information to go on, it might be difficult to understand how scholars can be confident this is a female figure. But male figures from the Neolithic era are rarer, and this figure lacks the clearly articulated genitals with which those male figures are typically defined.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
Registry history
- 6th–5th millennium B.C. — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — sculpture
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