NAKED MAN KNEELING

Description The figurine depicts a naked man kneeling in the position of the archer, with the anatomical parts barely hinted at and the head well characterised. The round face has the features of a young man, with his long hair combed with a central scrim, gathered back and brought back in a bun on the upper part of his head. The body is thin, with only suggested bones and muscles: the chest and buttocks slightly pronounced, the toes incised, the genitals silent. He holds his left leg up at a right angle with his foot firmly on the ground, his right leg resting against his knee and lying backwards on the back of his foot. Unlike most of these characters, who have bodies uniformly covered with slip, this specimen has patches of other colors in places that must have originally been covered by the robes. Perhaps these are areas restored with pigments different from the original.