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The paper deals with two little clay legs from the collection of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. They are fragments of anthropomorphic figurines of the Linear Pottery Culture, discovered in 1962 at the site Koniecmosty 2, świętokrzyskie voivodeship. Performed was the technological, iconographic and contextual analysis of the statuettes. Raised were also issues relating to corporeality and personal identity in the Neolithic.
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A significant number of clay ushebtis comes from two Middle Kingdom tombs MMA 1151 and 1152 investigated by a Polish team in Western Thebes. The funerary figurines belong to a later phase of tomb reuse in the first millennium BC. Nine types were distinguished: six of baked clay and three of unbaked clay. The types and their distribution in the Theban necropolis are discussed in this paper, including the implications of these findings for the debate on the existence of workshops manufacturing funerary goods in Thebes
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