Platforms

(MAI01)

Identification

Artefact ID

MAI01

Alternative ID

MAI01

Location

WGS84 Geolocation Accuracy

cadastre

Site

Maiersch

Description

naturalistic formed head with neck originally fitted to peg, expressive face with open mouth, sharp edged jaw and chin, ears, nose and eyes, face turned up

Stove tile placement certainty

uncertain

Posture

standing

Preserved body parts

head & neck

3D specifics of shaping

sagital striation, realistic proportion and modelation of the skull, 2-layered

3D specifics of traces

eyes engraved by possibly wooden stick, prefiring polishing on neck surface, head top removing trace

Recent damage & alteration

❌

Recent damage type

coated

Surface data presence

Mass & structure data presence

MicroCT specifics

n/a

Thermic cracks

Polished-section description

irregular firing with black and middle brown surface
polished section: dark grey to black homogeneous matrix (01) with unsorted angular quartz grains (01, 04) only
original coated surface: Mostly small particles of mica (02) - partly identified as dark brown biotite (03, 05, 07), and light brown feldspar (06)

Mineralogy

sampled

Wear

n/a

Painting (identified by naked eye)

Painting (identified in DStretch tool - mode)

Painting (identified by microscopy)

Pigment determination

n/a

Fracture preservation (structured)

original

Fracture nature

crossing original joining lines

Has a construction opening

Datation

Relative datation

Neolithic

Custody

Access rights

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Documentation

Stove tile shape certainty

Uncertain

Author of research data

Ludmila Kaňáková

Author of 3D models

Vojtěch Nosek

3D model:

MAI01.mtl

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MAI01.obj

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Documents:

XRD_MAI01.pdf

XRD measurement protocol. Measured by Martina Kohoutková (VŠCHT).

Biblatex

@dataset{MAI01,
author = { Ludmila Kaňáková, Vojtěch Nosek },
title = { (MAI01) },
url = { https://hdl.handle.net/11222/archaeodata.5739 },
note = { NEOFIG, Digitalia MUNI ARTS, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University },
date = "2026-03-03 "
urldate = "2026-05-22" }

Harvard citation style

(MAI01) [3D object], in Kaňáková, L. - Nosek, V. , 2026 . NEOFIG, Digitalia MUNI ARTS, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University [dataset], viewed 22 May 2026, https://hdl.handle.net/11222/archaeodata.5739