Bronze Age Bird

-2400/-1500

National Museum of Archaeology, Malta
Valletta, Malta

Small figurine of seated bird in dark brown clay with burnished self-slip. Decoration of deep grooved and cross-hatching all over. A narrow hole is pierced up from a swelling on the underside of the body and coming out at the top of the body.

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Title: Bronze Age Bird
Date Created: -2400/-1500
Location: Tarxien Temples
Medium: Ceramic
Showcase room: Bronze Age Display, Tarxien Cemetery Showcase
Photographed by: Stephen Psaila
Period: Tarxien Cemetery phase
Inventory number: 5799

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