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Clay female figurine with hands raised to breast

Π3489
Clay
Mended. The hands are missing.
Height: 23 cm.
Chamaizi
Souvloto Mouri
Middle Bronze Age. Late Prepalatial - Protopalatial period, Middle Minoan Ι - II period.:
2000 - 1700 BC:
Gallery:
II
Case:
16
Exhibition thematic unit:
Middle Bronze Age - Late Prepalatial-Protopalatial period (2200-1700 BC). From small communities to towns
Life in the settlements
Description
Standing female figurines with hands raised in front of the face. The figure is wearing a hat and a wide skirt. The skirt is hollow and functions as the base of the figurines, which is painted solid brownish-red. Standing male and female figurines making gestures of adoration have been found in large numbers in open-air shrines and are believed to be votives representing worshippers. However, they have also been found in settlements, where they often signal the existence of a domestic shrine or rituals, especially when discovered together with other ritual objects. This female figurine was found with two male figurines and the head of a fourth figurines in Room 2, outside the east side of the oval building on the peak of Souvloto Mouri, Chamaizi. They may be associated with a room on that side of the building which was used as a shrine.
Bibliography:
Davaras, C. "The Oval House at Chamaizi Reconsidered." Αρχαιολογικά Ανάλεκτα εξ Αθηνών Vol. V:2 (1972): 283-288. Xanthoudides, S. "Εκ Κρήτης: Προϊστορική Οικία εις Χαμαίζι Σητείας." Αρχαιολογική Εφημερίς (1906): 117-156, fig. 4.
Author:
E. S.


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