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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    TS00180
    Measures:
    Max: 5,2 cm
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    TS00181
    Measures:
    Max: 3,5 cm
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    TS00184
    Measures:
    H: 15,5; W: 9,2 cm
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    TS00368
    Measures:
    H: 7 cm
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    TS00185
    Measures:
    Max: 9 cm
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    TS00254
    Measures:
    H: 27,7; W: 17,7 cm
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    TS00193
    Measures:
    L: 11,3 cm
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    TS00194
    Measures:
    Max: 9 cm
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    TS01501
    Measures:
    L: 8 cm
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    TS01272
    Measures:
    H: 165 cm ca.
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    TS02090
    Measures:
    H: 7,5; L: 10; W: 7,5 cm ca.
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    TS00210
    Measures:
    H: 15,5; W: 12 cm
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    TS00251
    Measures:
    H: 9,5; W: 6,7 cm
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    TS01866
    Measures:
    H: 34 cm
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    TS01867
    Measures:
    H: 8,2 cm
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    TS00204
    Measures:
    H: 5,2; W: 4,1 cm
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    TS00227
    Measures:
    H: 6,1; W: 6,2 cm
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    TS00229
    Measures:
    L: 10,2 cm
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    TS00230
    Measures:
    L: 11,5 cm
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    TS00233
    Measures:
    L: 16,5 cm
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    TS00234
    Measures:
    H: 4,5; W: 3,3 cm
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    TS00240
    Measures:
    Max: 7 cm
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    TS00241
    Measures:
    H: 7; W: 5,5 cm
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    TS00247
    Measures:
    Max: 3,7 cm
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    TS00249
    Measures:
    H: 7,3; W: 7,8 cm
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    TS00250
    Measures:
    H: 19; W: 18 cm
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    TS00252
    Measures:
    H: 9,3; W: 6 cm
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    TS00255
    Measures:
    H: 27 cm
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    TS00261
    Measures:
    L: 3,8; W: 2,9 cm
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    TS00286
    Measures:
    H: 7,5; W: 6,5 cm
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