Female Figure with Raised Arm 15th-17th century Tellem civilization () This female figure stands erect facing forward with her right hand close to her thigh and her left arm powerfully extending towards the sky. The carver of this intimately scaled figure privileged the body’s volumetric forms. With an economy of lines and planes, the sculptor stylized her physique, underscoring elongated features and rounded surfaces, with some sharper angular transitions particularly evident in profile. The legs, torso and arms are rendered as cylindrical volumes whose facets are modulated to suggest a knee joint, protruding navel, pointed buttocks, and small breasts. Sunken into the base, the feet are presented as one solid mass that heightens the figure’s poise and steadiness. Starting from the pedestal, the succession of vertically oriented lines and forms creates a strong visual tension that culminates in the elongated arm and enlarged hand pointing upwards. In contrast with the sculpture’s forc