Painted Terracotta Dog Figurine

Painted terracotta figurine of a dog playing with a ball; he is stretched out with the ball between its paws, his legs underneath his body; long face with bulging eyes; tail broken but originally stretched alongside his back right-hand leg; made of coarse buff clay, decorated with black and red-purple paint: ladder patterns on the back and legs, eyes circled in black, ears lined with red, the ball and snout are also red; ears chipped, paint worn all over.

Dimensions: Height: 4 centimetres; Length: 6.90 centimetres

Object Type: figure

Techniques: painted

Archaic I

1894,1101.524