Animal Figurine

Unbaked clay figurine of a seated dog.

Man and Animals: "ca. 1600-1100 BC. H. 5.9 cm L. at base 3.8 cm. Clay figurines of dogs, seated or standing, were set beheath the floors of houses. They were found singly or in groups of up to five; some bore traces of paint. Sometimes they were placed next to protective figurines konn as "Papsukkal" figures. The latter were placed in mudbrick boxes containting rirtual foodstuffs and were set under the floors of houses near walls or next to door jambs. The presence of these figurines has been taken to indicate the religious nature of the sturctures in which they were found."