'[The] discovery of the figurine was a total surprise for the whole team,' Agnieszka Szymczak, an expedition leader, told Live Science. 'It was the first such find not just among the over 1.5k [1,500] small finds excavated from the Bahra 1 site but also from the Arabian Gulf region.'
Professor Piotr Bieli*ski, of University of Warsaw's Mediterranean Archaeology centre, said: 'The presence of this figurine at our site raises intriguing questions about its purpose and the symbolic, and perhaps ritual, meaning it may have had for the community inhabiting this settlement.'
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