Clay masks and statuettes of gods and women

In display cases 42 and 43, there are numerous clay votive masks of female deities with holes in the headdress area, probably for the insertion of diadems or crowns made of precious metals, statuettes of seated or standing deities with flattened bodies, sometimes wearing polos on their heads and various types of necklaces on their chests, together with those of female offerers bearing gifts of torches, piglets, doves, drinking vessels, and pater. A very unusual find is the ritual clay tube with an aniconic representation of a deity, suggested only by the presence of ears and hair styled to frame the forehead, on which there is a polos; the object, inserted into the ground, was probably used to communicate ideally with the underworld.