Cypriot slab plank-figure with arm stubs: Middle Cypriot II (1850- 1750BC)

Slab style Plank Figure from the Middle Bronze Age I-II.  The slab figures do not have the head and neck narrower than the body as in the classic "Shoulder Figures", which were decorated with incised patterns marking clothing and necklaces.  Slab figures also often have rudimentary arms and are much more likely to have breasts than the classic figures.  They are generally taken to be a little later than the classic plank figures and in these later figures the incised decoration (with only the nose in relief) is replaced by other features in relief, often including arms, which the earlier figures do not have, and later (in transitional figures from the Middle Cypriot III- Late Cypriot I) even legs.With its flipper like "arms," the outline of this figure is somewhat similar to the 7 slab-plank figures made of chalk from South West Cyprus, now in the Cycladic Museum, Athens. These are blank but may have been painted originally.  Its ears are curiously bent over at the top, very like on the "flat head" Base Ring figures of the Late Bronze Age, the ears of which it has been suggested intentionally imitated the ears of the contemporary bull figures. This is another reason to think that the figure may be at least as late as Middle Cypriot II

See my general notes on Plank figures with my narrow necked "Plank figure" http://ant.david-johnson.co.uk/catologue/59 (and also http://ant.david-johnson.co.uk/catologue/116 )