Figurine Mold

CBS Register: mold in terracotta: squatting woman with a bird

PBS XVI: Nude child with the bird. He is squatting, holds the bird in the right and a bunch of grapes in the left hand. Infant gods, the Horus, Adonis, Bacchus, were popular in Graeco-Parthian times. They were represented sitting on the ground, too weak to stand on their tiny legs. Is this a Babylonian version of the same myth? The modelling is awkward, hands and legs are rudimentary, the head is too large, with sunken eyes which give to it a queer look in spite of a childish smile. Modern cast out of an ancient original mold.