Figurine of a standing woman
Details
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Title
Figurine of a standing woman
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Associated place
Kefrik (find spot) -
Date
1150 BC - 350 BC
Iron Age (Near East) (1200 - 550 BC) -
Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled and with cream slip and applied decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
13.6 cm (height)
6.7 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Sir Leonard Woolley, 1914.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1914.795
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; baked; buff core with cream slip; broken and repaired across the neck; columnar with concave base to allow it to stand; all details in applied clay; prominent fan-shaped hairstyle with applied ornament of strips and pellets; pinched nose and applied double pellet eyes; neither the mouth nor the ears depicted; double necklace with applied pellets; arms akimbo with an applied pair of bracelets on each arm; hands touching across breasts.
In: Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)
Glossary of terms
slip
Further reading
Moorey, P. R. S., Cemeteries of the First Millennium B.C. at Deve Hüyük, near Carchemish, Salvaged by T. E. Lawrence and C. L. Woolley in 1913: With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Objects in Berlin, Cambridge, Liverpool, London and Oxford, British Archaeological Reports International Series, 87 (Oxford: B.A.R, 1980), 566
Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), 362, p.229, illus. p.229
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