Terracotta

The Roman pieces in terracotta had a great production throughout the empire, and it were one of the most common elements that were given away in the celebrations of Saturnalia not only children, also adults. It were polyfunctional objects that were used in many situations of life of the Romans.

These objects were toys children, offerings brought to the temple to ask for a wish to the gods or to thank you for having granted a request, figures of the domestic altars and finally, objects belonging the trousseau the tombs, mainly children's graves.

Terracotta was painted as show some traces of red paint preserved around the right eye and the interstices between the lines of hair.

The chronology of this piece can only be discerned from its typological features, because it was found in the existing surface layer in Castulo.

Headdress figure seems to match with hairstyle nodus type, and it would indicate a chronology around the first century AD, however, the lack of the left side of the hairstyle and the entire rear area makes it impossible to know whether it was a typical vertical hairstyle of second century.