#Perhaps as a curse but some people think the Pharaonic bride of the dead figurines lacked legs for a specific purpose related to fertility

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Stylized Coptic human figures

#cipher talk #It's more common to see castings and carvings and such that are more like #In line with realism and Hellenistic art but I have an affection for these guys #Coptic art #Coptic culture #They're so funky! Also the two red clay torsos seem to have been deliberately broken for some reason #We don't know why. My guess is they may have been used in magic and the breaking was a ritual act #Perhaps as a curse but some people think the Pharaonic bride of the dead figurines lacked legs for a specific purpose related to fertility #And the museum holding for these two also remarks on their similarity to fertility figures