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Hand made, baked clay female figure; curvature of the back flaked away; missing from the hips down; body cylindrical but rectangular in section; arms broken off; breasts; two cross belts and necklace with incised parallel lines as decoration; facial features consist of sunken depression on either side of the nose, for the eyes and a thin horizontal line for the mouth.
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