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11st Century

The Route of the Museums of Caesaraugusta

The Route of the Museums of Caesaraugusta
Zaragoza, Spain

Schematic figure provided with an oval head with missing facial features. In the hair area it presents, like a turban, a band decorated with two concentric circles. In another piece, it preserves a rectangular part of the body that would represent the belt/navel with an incised decoration of a circle with a central point and the beginning of the legs.

Apart from the possibility that it was broken by accident, a ritual destruction can be hypothesized.

Giving small toys to children was common practice, as was giving them amulets that protected them during childhood.

We find the custom of breaking amulets related in a poem from the end of the 11th century written by the panegyrist Ibn 'Ammar, who lived and worked for the Saraqustí court, describing the custom of the rite of passage from childhood to youth through the act of breaking those childish amulets.

According to the research of Aranzazu Mendívil, there is a parallel in Zaragoza, a zoomorphic figure in a well of Taifa chronology in the vicinity of the súdda.

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The Route of the Museums of Caesaraugusta

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