Kaloriziki, Figurine

Body below arms cone-shaped and hollow, becoming a tapering tube. Figure stands erect and raises right arm, shaped like one crescent of a Ψ. In right hand a small cigar shaped weapon. Left arm only partially modelled, sweeps in a curve into shield which is held forward and up. Neck thick, chin and nose strongly modelled, back of cranium clearly modelled. Eyebrows indicated plastically, but not painted. Eyes are large dotted ellipses. Earflaps, above which contouring of helmet breaks sharply inward and upward to a huge crest which sweeps from well forward of the nose in a great high arc to shoulders. The lowest part of the face has been pleated by finger pressure and painted with a wide black hem, then is a red stripe bordered by narrow black lines at waist height and black stripes like straps around and under each arm at the shoulder, these connected by four horizontal bars, like a brace or corset, ^{on the back}. Black stripe under chin is beard or strap, mouth painted black on flags red, black land below crest and oblique alternating red & black stripes on crest. Alternating red & black stripes on right arm.