Head

Well-made oval-shaped head with a break along the neckline. The face is damaged, but it is carefully cut and separated from the cap (hairstyle). Pointed chin is highlighted and separated from the neck. A headdress, or hairstyle, frames the face. The hairstyle is represented by rows of zigzag lines.



Manufacturing technique

All the operations are made with a burin. Traces of ornament markup on the head are not visible. In the neck area there is an intentional scrapping


Use-wear traces

Use-wear traces are not found.


Storage location

The State Hermitage Museum

Inventory number

370/766

The Museum KAMIS

no

Size

Height: 36.43 mm

Width: 29.02 mm

Thickness: 25.76 mm

Face width: 16.06 mm


Material

Ivory

Dating

19-23 th years BP

Culture

Mal'ta-Buret' archaeological culture

The author of the excavations

Gerasimov M.M.
1930

Publications

Abramova Z.A. Paleoliticheskoe iskusstvo na territorii SSSR. 1962. Tabl. XLVI, 2 i XLIX, 2 (kak 764)

Lbova L.V. Simvolicheskij interrakcionizm mal'tinskoj antropomorfnoj paleoliticheskoj skul'ptury // Iskusstvo Еvrazii. - 2018. - №2(9). - S. 18-32

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