Jibladze L., Chkartishvili N. Bronze Anthropological Figurine from Mukhrani Village

Leri Jibladze, Nino Chkartishvili Georgian National Museum, (Georgia, Tbilisi)

Bronze Anthropomorphic Figurine from the Village Mukhrani

Summary

A small-sized figurine was acquired by the Georgian National Museum in 2018 year. It is preserved in the main depository of the archaeological collections of the Simon Janashia Georgian Museum. The figurine is made of bronze.

This artifact was found accidentally on the territory of Mukhrani village (Mtskheta municipality). The bronze anthropomorphic figurine is a small-sized sculpture depicting a man in a standing position. Its weight is 105 gm, height -7,6 cm. The figurine’s hands are raised up, elbows bent. The man carries a flat-bottomed wine drinking cup (length 2,1 cm, d- 1,3 cm). All elements of the man’s face are well-defined, facial features are proportionate and realistically expressed. The figurine is naked above the waist and has a short clothing in the lower part of the body. The clothing has a string-like bell on the waist.

Small-sized, metal figurines were found in Georgia and in Caucasia in the first half of the 1st millennium. All those figurines had ritual purposes. Though they had common and similar marks, they differed greatly from each other according to their forms assignments and fabricating technique. Most of such figurines were found by accident as well as in hoards, burial grounds and in cultic places.

Those artifacts should be dated back to the 7th – 6th centuries B.C.

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Illustration:

I. Bronze Anthropomorphic Figurine from the Village Mukhrani.

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