Ain Sakhri lovers

Description

Stone figurine. The natural shape of a calcite cobble has been used to represent the outline of two figures in coitus. Their heads, arms and legs appear as raised areas around which the surface has been picked away. The figures have no faces. The arms of one hug the shoulders of the other and its knees are bent up underneath those of the slightly smaller figure. The image is also phallic. Natufian Height: 102 millimetres Width: 63 millimetres Depth: 39 millimetres Weight: 343 grammes Made from 111 Nikon D5100 photographs taken by Lucy Ellis and Daniel Pett, assembled by Daniel Pett COL: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?partId=1&objectId=1358965