These are two figurines found inside two tombs close to each other, both attributable to female subjects and associated both by type of deposition and type of attested ritual. Figurine 1 was recovered inside Tomb 6, referable to an adult female subject aged…
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The figurine is a small anthropomorphic head in uniformly fired figulina clay, of particular artistic finesse, so much so that it has been defined by Rodolfo Striccoli, archaeologist who supervised the excavations at the site, "... the most beautiful example of anthropomorphic plastic discovered from the Neolithic period so far in Italy …”. In the part…
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The statuette is a small clay head, surrounded by hair made with a series of notches engraved at regular distances; the face is flat, with a slightly oblique profile and turned upwards from which the profile of the nose emerges. The eyes are marked by two horizontal incisions, while…
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