Archaeological human clay figurine

Archaeological clay figurine fragment of a female torso excavated from the South African Iron Age archaeological site of K2, test trench 3, block A2, layer 20 dating approximately AD 1100 - AD 1220. The object consists of half a torso with inflated navel, both buttocks and right leg. The torso is cylindrical extending from buttock and finishing approximately 30 mm above an inflated navel. Both to the right and left of the belly button is a dotted decoration. The two dotted lines extend horizontally away from the navel. This decoration is only evident at the front of the figure. Along the spine of the back further dotted decoration is apparent. The torso is 58 mm in height and 55 mm in width. Directly attached to the torso are both buttocks, the right buttock extends into the leg. The buttocks exhibit steatopygia features and measure 71 mm in width and 50 mm in height. The right leg is cylindrical and straight, there are no clear anatomical features except for the miniature foot which is flat and moulded in such a way that it continuous from and is slightly exaggerated from the leg. The leg including foot measures 53 mm in height and the leg is 21 mm in diameter.