Sculpture blank
Blank made on a fragment of a mammoth ivory with roughly marked head, body, and legs. On the back side there is cylindrical batural notch. In the middle part of the blank there is a longitudinal crack. There are some red spots on the item.
Manufacturing technique
The whole blank is formed using a planning knife, the traces of which are clearly visible on the thighs, when making a common contour, in the neck area, under the elbows. Firstly, the outline of the item was made, traces of knife cutting are on the head and in the area of the feet. Then a burin was used to make the indentation (eye-?) on the face, the left side of the chest and the inner side of the left thigh. A few traces of a burin are noticed on the right side of the chest. The grooves under the arms and the upper part of the buttocks are made with a knife.
Use-wear traces
Use-wear traces are not found.
Storage location
The State Hermitage MuseumInventory number
370/760The Museum KAMIS
noSize
| (mm) | |||||
| General parameters of the item | Head | Body | A lower part from thighs | A lower part from thighs on the back | |
| Length | 88.39 | 33.26 | 18.66 | 40.80 | 52.06 |
| Thickness | 14.02 | 14.02 | 14.77 |
13.55 |
|
| Width | 23.06 |
23.06 |
30.10 |
31.47 |
31.52 |
Material
IvoryDating
19-23 th years BPCulture
Mal'ta-Buret' archaeological cultureThe author of the excavations
Gerasimov M.M.1930
Publications
Abramova Z.A. Paleoliticheskoe iskusstvo na territorii SSSR, 1962, tabl. XLVIII, 5
Lbova L.V., Volkov P.V., Bocharova Е.N., Kovalev V.S., Hajkunova N.A. Osnovnye priemy modelirovaniya i dekorirovaniya paleoliticheskoj antropomorfnoj skul'ptury s pamyatnika Mal'ta (Vostochnaya Sibir'). // Arheologiya, etnografiya i antropologiya Еvrazii, tom 45 № 3, 2017. S. 48-55 DOI: 10.17746/1563-0102.2017.45.3.048-055
