This category includes figural sculptures bearing unequivocal witness to their being originally set against a wall. Technically speaking, they were sculptures in high/very high relief, quite often with parts (arms, feet) in full round.

In the Early Period, small sculptures were modelled (or moulded) with highly purified clay mixed with very finely triturated straw. Large-sized sculptures were modelled around an armature made of a sheaf of stray or reeds held by a strand of ropes; the figures were then shaped with a thick layer of coarse clay and completed with a coat of purified clay. Similar techniques were also used during the Late Period, although with solutions adapted to new challenges such as the gigantic size of the main cultic images. The core was made of common clay mixed with straw, and wooden sticks were used to fix the images to the walls or heads and limbs to the trunks; the finishing layer was of a distinctive red colour. The sculptures were all vivified by a bright polychromy and, particularly in the Early Period 2 and in the Late Period, they were often gilded.


 

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    TS01432
    Measures:
    H: 6,5; W: 10,2 cm
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    TS01433
    Measures:
    H: 6; W: 5,3 cm
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    TS01434
    Measures:
    H: 6; W: 5 cm
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    TS01435
    Measures:
    H: 5,4; W: 6,2 cm
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    TS01436
    Measures:
    H: 3,8; W: 4,3 cm
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    TS01437
    Measures:
    H: 8 cm
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    TS01438
    Measures:
    H: 6; W: 5,5 cm
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    TS01439
    Measures:
    H: 6,3 cm
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    TS01440
    Measures:
    L: 6 cm
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    TS01441
    Measures:
    L: 5,7; W: 4,2 cm
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    TS01442
    Measures:
    H: 8,7; W: 7,2 cm
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    TS01443
    Measures:
    H: 5,4 cm
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    TS01456
    Measures:
    H: 5,1 cm
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    TS01457
    Measures:
    H: 6,2 cm
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    TS01462
    Measures:
    L: 32,5; W: 19,5 cm
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    TS01464
    Measures:
    H: 16,5; W: 14 cm
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    TS01465
    Measures:
    H: 9,5 cm
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    TS01469
    Measures:
    H: 12; W: 8,5 cm
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    TS01471
    Measures:
    H: 10,5; W: 9,3 cm
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    TS01472
    Measures:
    H: 8,5 cm
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    TS01473
    Measures:
    H: 6; W: 6,8 cm
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    TS01474
    Measures:
    H: 5; W: 4,8 cm
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    TS01475
    Measures:
    H: 12,5; W: 9,5 cm
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    TS01480
    Measures:
    H: 6,2 cm
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    TS01482
    Measures:
    H: 7,4; W: 5,5 cm
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    TS01483
    Measures:
    H: 5,6; W: 5,6 cm
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    TS01484
    Measures:
    H: 10 cm
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    TS01487
    Measures:
    H: 8; L: 12,5 cm
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    TS01489
    Measures:
    H: 10 cm
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    TS01493
    Measures:
    H: 6,2; W: 7,4 cm
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