Description: A detailed analysis of an unusual figurine, and its context. Banffy explores what the object can tell us about cultural and trading contacts between Egypt and Mesopotamia in the early 3rd Millennium BC, and explores its religious function and context.
Brief description: Eszter Bánffy is a Hungarian archaeologist, specialised in European prehistory, in particular of Central and South-east Europe, authoring several books and a wide range of papers. She has worked for the Archaeological Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences; as a professor of prehistoric archaeology and of geoarchaeology (Szeged University), and has been conducting Hungarian and international projects. Since 2013, she has been director of the Romano-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute in Frankfurt am Main. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.