THREE RARE TERRACOTTA STYLISED FIGURES, probably a family group, of cimian appearance with prominent ears and eyes, the male figure with limp penis, the female with hands below her breasts, below her hands traces in black of the hieroglyph wts. The third figure, possibly representing a child, stands with hands across its chest, Protodynastic, circa 3000 B.C.

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THREE RARE TERRACOTTA STYLISED FIGURES, probably a family group, of cimian appearance with prominent ears and eyes, the male figure with limp penis, the female with hands below her breasts, below her hands traces in black of the hieroglyph wts. The third figure, possibly representing a child, stands with hands across its chest, Protodynastic, circa 3000 B.C.
6¼in. (15.8 cm.) high

A thermoluminesce analysis report from the Oxford Research Laboratory for Archaeology accompanies this lot (3)

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PUBLISHED:
P. Munro, Zu Einigen ägyptischen Terrakotta-Figuren, Göttinger Miszellen, 2, 1972, Abb. 2

Cf. P. Munro, op. cit., Abb. 1, for a similar phallic creature in the Kestner Museum, acquired from the Fr. W. von Bissing collection; and in I. Woldering, Aegyptische Kunst, Kestner Museum, Hannover, 1955, fig. 6

These figures are similar to those found in temple deposits at Abydos and Hierakonpolis, cf. Kofler-Truniger faience figures, exhibition catalogue Bilder für die Ewigkeit, Heidelberg, 1983, nos. 16-21 and 26; also in exhibition catalogue, Le Don du Nil: Art Égyptien dans les Collections Suisse, Zurich, 1978, no. 63; and W. Needler, Predynastic and Archaic Egypt in the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1984, no. 279