Seated figure

Unknown artist

Date: ca. late 8th millennium BCE

Medium: Limestone

Dimensions: 0.89 x 0.59 in. (2.26 x 1.5 cm)

Classification: Stone-Sculpture

Period: Neolithic

Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985

Date range

-8000 – -7000

Largest dimension

1.5 cm

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