| description | Carved from one block of coarse-grained, speckled gray sandstone. The statue represents a life-sized, clothed figure holding a rod-like object – most likely a ruler or deity. The figure is shown standing motionless, facing forward. The gender is not emphatically articulated. The figure is shown beardless and with shoulder-length hair that runs back over the head in a ribbed pattern and terminates along the back of the neck in a single row of spiral curls. The dress comprises a plain upper garment, the collar of which is visible at the neck, and a skirt with vertical ribbing. There are traces of a cuff or bracelet around the extant right wrist of the figure. The right arm is shown bent, the hand pressed against the chest, grasping the lower part of the rod object, which is held up against the chest and runs up against the right side of the neck just behind the ear. The rod tapers toward the bottom and the upper part bends slightly over the shoulder, in toward the head. The left arm is broken. |