Anthropomorphic rod
This is a large ellipsoid ivory rod. The rod tapers off closer to both tips. One of tips forms spike, and another one forms the handle of the item. The artefact has a small curve. There are rows of notches along the whole length of the item. There are three elements on the item (black paint), which are located in that way, that we can see the image of eyes (but we cannot see the special indentation for them).
Manufacturing technique
The item is treated with a push-plane - by movement along the long axis of the item. A knife as a cutting tool made perpendicular notches along the edge. There are traces of reamer work, which forms rows of indentations. To the left and right of the "face" there are longitudinal wavy lines (hair) made with a cutting tool. The end of the item is narrowed with a cutting tool.
Use-wear traces
Use-wear traces are not found.
Storage location
The State Hermitage MuseumInventory number
370/669Size
General length - 153.57+72.59 mm,
Thickness – 14.52 mm,
Width - 18.83 mm.
Ornamented part - 52.88 mm,
Width of the "face part" - 13.99 mm.
Material
IvoryDating
19-23 th years BPCulture
Mal'ta-Buret' archaeological cultureThe author of the excavations
Gerasimov M.M.1929
Publications
Gerasimov M.M. Mal'ta. Paleoliticheskaya stoyanka (predvaritel'nye dannye): rezul'taty rabot 1928/29 g. – Irkutsk: Vlast' truda, 1931, C.14, tabl.9, j
