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Terracotta Anachites

National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan

The figure is depicted frontally. Head is tilted forward. Hair is smoothly combed back and closed with a scarf. The face is narrow, the superciliary arches are almost straight, stray. Almond-shaped with raised pupils of the eyes slightly covered. The nose is straight, the chin is oval. The neck is short. Shoulders are narrow, sloping. Arms are crossed on a breast. The clothes, apparently, are a caftan or a dress without turn-ups with horizontal and vertical folds on the sleeves below the elbows. The statuette imprinted in the matrix is made of well-polished clay. On the front surface, there are traces of wear. The back and lateral edges are partially trimmed with a knife.

The 11th-12th centuries
Clay
11,3 × 3,1 × 1,9 cm
Kuiruk Tobe Site, South Kazakhstan

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