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Figurine of a "Crocodile Man"

Modern
Modern

Medium/Technique Ivory
Dimensions 4.5 x 1.4 cm (1 3/4 x 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Helen and Alice Colburn Fund and Seth K. Sweetser Fund
Accession Number65.1681
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsSculpture

DescriptionModern work in the style of Early Minoan III. "Crocodile man" with arms and legs bending up in loops; feet under elbows, hands under chin. Criss-cross incised design on limbs and side of flat back-strip. Head flat on top, with large hole, as at bottom. Three small holes on sides and back at eye-level. Broken and mended.
ProvenanceBy 1965: with Tassos Zoumboulakis, Athens; purchased by MFA from Tassos Zoumboulakis, December 8, 1965