| Notes on support and decorations | Limestone statuette of a slim figured female wearing a long fringed wrap around skirt, seated on a high seat with feet resting on a projecting base. The figure has carefully carved facial features; enormous lidded eyes, long eye-brows incised over brow ridge, a relatively small nose, an incised line for the mouth, and a dimple in the chin. The chin length hair, flaring out slightly on either side, is incised with horizontal and vertical lines to possibly indicated braiding, and this patterning extends around the back of the head; radiating incised lines indicated the hair on the top of the flat head. The head is supported on a thick neck. It is likely that the torso is bare; the chest and breasts are well modelled, and the figure has broad shoulders, and an incised navel. The arms seem to have been broken, but later incised lines were marked over the top to indicate the fingers. A belt or a fold in the skirt is indicated around the waist, and there are pos-sible traces of a dark pigment on the garment. The back is fully carved with the spine and the folds of the arms indicated; the waist band and skirt continue round to the back, and the feet, with incised toes, are carved free from the L-shaped base. |