2,000-year-old clay doll dug up in one piece at Osaka ruins site

Asahi ^ | January 27, 2017 at 17:00 JST | By TAKASHI YOSHIKAWA

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2,000-year-old clay doll dug up in one piece at Osaka ruins site

IBARAKI, Osaka Prefecture--A moon-faced clay doll from the mid-Yayoi Pottery Culture period (300 B.C.-A.D. 300) has been unearthed in near perfect condition at an archaeological site here, the first discovery of its kind in the prefecture.

The charming doll, of a kind very rarely found intact, was unearthed at the Kori ruins, the Osaka Center for Culture Heritage announced Jan. 26.

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http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/photo/AS20170127003265.html

[Rebelbase]

We spared Osaka being bombed during WWII just for this moment.

[Chengdu54]

I guess it ruined everything.

[waus]

Looks a little bit like a young Nancy Pelosi.

[RegulatorCountry]

Doll? It looks like a salt shaker, or maybe a decorative bottle stopper depending upon scale.

[bgill]

Oh, for the days when editors did their jobs. I thought it meant the poor doll ruined, disgraced or tarnished the site.

[fishtank]

Hmmmm.... you didn’t think the doll should’ve been wearing a bikini instead of a one-piece?

:-)

[\/\/ayne]

It’s not a doll, it’s an action figure.

[Pearls Before Swine]

My guess — it’s a fertility fetish.

[skimbell]

Na, my niece had one of those.

It's Osaka Barbie.

[ViLaLuz]

Wall-e's Eve:

[vikingd00d]

So, 2000 years old would make this an Ainu artifact?

[PapaBear3625]

So, 300 BC, they were able to make a rather primitive-looking doll figurine.

Meanwhile, in that same time period, the Greeks were doing this

[Larry Lucido]

Godzilla Barbie.

[RegulatorCountry]

Yes, and look at the Greeks now.

[PLMerite]

Some things are buried for a reason...

[fishtank]

Greeks now are disgusting.

:-)

[Candor7]

Looks like a Jizo doll, thise used in burial ritual for an aborted child.

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/57777137/jizo-classic-celadon-glaze-25-275-tall?ref=market

[Robwin]

Has Bill Clinton announced yet that he would hit it?

[reed13k]

You will still see similar ‘dolls’ like this especially in the countryside. They often are put in place where a death occurred (similar to the crosses you see on the side of the road sometimes) alongside a road or near the approach to a shrine/temple. Often they are dedicated after the death of a child.