Łukasz JarmuŜek, Sławomir Rzepka      Of the small finds discovered during the second season of excavations at the Polish!Slovak Archaeological Mission in Tell el!Retaba, 1 one has proved quite unusual (fig. 1).   It is a small female figurine, 4.5 cm high, hand!modeled of Nile clay. It was fired in an oxidizing atmosphere and quite carelessly, the upper part taking on a light red color and the lower one gray; it may even have been fired together with pottery vessels, having been put inside one of them. The features of the face are reduced to a beak nose. Body modeling is schematic to the highest degree: the hands, waist, hips and buttocks are not marked. Indeed, the most distinctive feature is the one breast, modeled conically on the left side of the chest; the other breast is not broken off — it was simply never there. The legs are separated by a vertical stroke and the toes are poorly marked with short lines. The feet are very small, too small to have supported the figurine standing up. Incised dots arranged in a circle mark the pubic hairs. A sharp pointed tool was used for all the details. The figurine is preserved whole. No traces of paint have been noted.   The figurine was found in the northwestern part of the site (Area 2 in fig. 2), in a big mud!brick house which can be dated to the Third Intermediate Period (see fig. 3). The biggest of the rooms excavated so far (no. 4) had a vaulted ceiling. 2 After this ceiling collapsed, a thin wall was built on top of the tumble, forming a new room 4a (encompassing only the eastern half of the original room). Only one occupation layer was attested here. When the room (and possibly the whole 1 The mission works under the auspices of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. Excavations in 2008 followed a survey season carried out in 2007. Preliminary reports have been published: S. Rzepka et al., "Tell el!Retaba, season 2008",         (in preparation); A. Wodzińska, "Tell el!Retaba 2008: Pottery",         (in preparation); S. Rzepka et al., "Tell el!Retaba 2007!2008",  (in preparation). 2 Some remains of the vault can still be seen on the northern wall of this room.