Dan’s photos are always SO good! If you go to his photo stream he has a few more of this same object from different angles. The detail I wanted to record other than just the existence of this object and its location is the center image, which to my eye in this photo looks like three seated women and I’d be tempted to read as a representation of the cult image.
Here’s another detail from another of Dan’s photos at a slightly higher resolution:
I’m interested in how different (less archaic) this representation is than that on RRC 486/1. I wish I could make out the attributes better on the terracotta model.
Update 23 March 2026:
revisiting this post, I feel I’m seeing new things. Is a child being lifted by the left hand woman onto the lap of the central woman? Is the right hand woman hold a bowl on her lap? Is there something on the bowl? The right hand woman seems to direct her gaze towards the child…
The lower corner details seem to show a naked man wrestling with a beast, similar to the hercules and the lion motif.
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