Photographer: Andrea Blumtritt | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Small, sculptured rubbing table depicting a cat-like creature. The stone object consists of an oval base and four zoomorphic legs that are slightly inclined inwards. The narrow sides of the concave work surface are decorated with two opposing, cat-like protomes. They represent the head and tail of a felid. The realistic figure has small, upturned ears and oval eyes. Large teeth in relief appear in its rectangular, slightly open mouth. The bridge of the creature's nose is decorated with an engraved pattern. It consists of diagonal bundles of lines set against each other. The decoration is repeated on the top of the sculpted tail. The broad, flattened part of the body was designed as if the cat had elegantly wrapped it around its left hind leg. The vertical sections of the base stone feature a surrounding frieze with diagonal, parallel lines. The rubbing table has a flat underside. Its four undecorated legs are slightly bent. The right hind leg is turned strongly inwards. The left front leg has a raised, glued fracture. The object's engravings are moderately eroded. The rubbing table shows hardly any signs of use. (Künne 2005) Further information on the social, symbolic and cultural significance, as well as on the find context and periodisation could not be integrated into the long description due to technical problems at Museum Plus.
