Taruga terracottas

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Sculpture · c. 400 BC · Taruga · Africa

Found beside iron furnaces — tying the sculpture to early smelting

Taruga terracottas — Nicotta · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Style: Nok terracottas — Clay heads and figures with triangular eyes — the oldest large sculpture in sub-Saharan Africa
Century: 5th century BC

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