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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Omeka ID 3237
Sitges de Saus

wild boar figurine

MAC GIR-041892

Object type
wild boar figurine
Production date
-500 / -300
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Culture
-
Discovery location
Sitges de Saus
Materials
pottery
Township
Saus, Camallera i Llampaies, (Alt Empordà)
Technique
handmade
Where is it?
MASPG
Dimensions
no mides (a la web parla de 9 cm de llargada aprox)
Description
The figure represents a small hand-made terracotta wild boar about 9 cm long, which comes from the Iberian rural settlement of Saus (Saus, Camallera and Llampaies, Alt Empordà) and is dated in the fifth century BC. Almost whole, it is only missing the tail and the sexual organs, which must have broken. Zoomorphic terracotta figurines are well known in both pre-Iberian and Iberian and Greek environments. When these types of figures appear in funeral contexts, that is, in burials, they are usually attributed a ritual or symbolic value. This figurine appeared in a domestic context, inside a silo that was reused for waste. We understand that this is a broken or lost toy of the children of the community who lived and worked there.

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