Southern Tajikistan in Kushana period - HEAD OF MAN.

Fired clay. Height 10,3. Modeling and carving without the application of a die to the kilning. Processed from all sides, this hollow inside head composed the upper part of some article (anthropomorphous cover of ossuariya?). Face is high-cheeked, forehead low and sloping, nose long and straight line, with the pointed tip. The mouth of slightly opened, upper lip is hidden by thin long projection with the slanting transverse incisions - image of the moustache, whose ends, descending, are connected with the short large beard (is also depicted as projection, but larger and somewhat more dense in chin, "dressed" by vertical incisions). Eyes elongated, almond-shaped, slightly convex: the boundary of upper and lower eyelid is designated by the deep groove, pupils and irises are not shown. Superciliary arcs are transmitted by relief very symbolically (they are not correlated with the outline of eye, they are close upwards to bridge of the nose form almost horizontal line). The drawn eyebrows follow the configuration
of supercilia; at the point of their junction above the bridge of the nose is a small clay-urna. Ears are protruded, on the earlobes there are pierced holes (2,5 mm) for the links. On the boundary between the forehead and the hair (short tufts of hair "combed" back) there are wavy cray-"coiled", that depicts diadem or sprout of plant. 4C - 5C (?). the hill of Zakottepa (region of Regar). Random finding.
„Q„M ‡‚ 2974. „L„y„„.: „K„B ‡‚ 388.

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