Animal model fragment (enigmatic)
Details
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Title
Animal model fragment (enigmatic)
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Associated place
Choga Mami (C.M. 11) (place of excavation) -
Date
8500 BC - 3000 BC
Samarra Culture (5700 - 4900 BC) -
Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled
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Object type
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Dimensions
5.5 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1968.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1968.1623
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; baked; eroded surface with traces of black paint; greenish-buff fabric; flat on one side; traces of breaks at top and bottom; pear-shaped.
In: Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)
Further reading
Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), 15, p.37, illus. p.37
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