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Emaciated Crouching Figure
Emaciated Crouching Figure
c. 100 BC-AD 300
Earthenware with burnished red slip
Overall: 14 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.261
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The protruding ribs and staring eyes of this melancholy figure may show the effects of a ritual fast, rather than famine. Fasting purified an individual in preparation for religious rites and may have enhanced the search for supernatural visions.
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