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Veined Nubian sandstone

Kadruka, Cemetery I, Grave 131.

Neolithic, second half of fifth mellennium B.C.

H. 196 mm. W.58 mm. Th. 42 mm.

Sudan National Museum, Khartoum 26861.

The material of this figurine comes from the same source as that used for the previous statuette shown here (SNM 28731).  Of exceptional quality. its production required all the technical skills for the treatment of stone known at the time. Cutting, roughening, and pecking were used to obtain the rough shape before the final polish. It is an oblong figurine with swelling at the level of the shoulders, which are only hinted at. It succeeds, without showing any actual anatomical detail or sextual attributes, in indicating that it is a female representation. This statuette is of the same special style as SNM 28731, where the process of stylization of the forms seeks accuracy of proportion, a phenmenon that is accentuated by the way of the veining of the rock has been made use of. The treatment of the face is particularly characteristic of this style, with only a few lines incised with burin, showing sight rather than eyes. Its stylization connects it not only to figurine SNM 28731, but also to figurine of terracotta shown next (SNM 28680) found in a grave at another cemetery at Kadruka. This figurine shown here comes from the grave of the head of the community of cattle farmers.

Welsby and Anderson 2004).

تمثال أنثوي من الحجر الرملي

كدروكة، الجبانة 1،  القبر 131

العصر الى مكان العينين. إذا كان هذا التمثال يتميز عن كل التماثيل الأنثوية في وادي النيل، فإن ذلك يعود ولاشك الى أن الفنان السوداني عرف أن يبرز الانوثة بدون اللجوء الى إبراز التفاصيل التشريحية أو الأعضاء التناسلية.