Animal figure - image 1

Middle Bronze Age I

Animal figure

Animal figure Statuette of an indefinable animal in the Red Slip Ware type.The traces of red Engobe are already quite rubbed off.Slaughtered, cubic bodies, elongated head with two hollows as an eye and a slit as mouth, short, thick tail, short, clumsy legs.The animal's back is flat with two ridges along the upper part of the flanks.Bernhard-Walcher and others, the Cypricer Antique Collection in the KHM.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna 1999 (V. Karageghis) H. 3,8 cm, L. 7,8 cm

Date

1900 - 1800 BC

Accession No.

Antikensammlung, V 3267

Collection

Vienna Museum

Provenance

  • Prehistoric department/nhm Vienna;Purchase of Max Ohnefalsch-Richter;1981 exchange