figure (ritual & belief: representations)

Head from a small clay bull figurine in light red terracotta. The pinched ears remain intact and the eyes are punched circles. The nose and mouth are roughly incised and through the muzzle is a hole pierced from side to side, possibly for a string allowing the animal to be pulled along when intact and mounted on the kind of terracotta wheels so common in sites of this period.

Head from a small bull figurine in light red terracotta. The pinched ears remain intact (the left one at least) and the eyes are punched circles. The nose and mouth are roughly incised and through the muzzle is a hole pierced from side to side (possibly for a string allowing the animal to be pulled along when intact and mounted on the kind of terracotta wheels so common in sites of this period). The neck is marked in black ink with ‘KD’ (probably Kula Dheri, a site on the Charsadda-Mardan road, Charsadda District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan). Archaeological context: presumably unstratified and from a surface collection. Early centuries CE. Given by Col D H Gordon (1952/3).

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