figurine
Details
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Date
8500 BC - 3000 BC
Tell Halaf Period (6000 - 5000 BC) -
Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1934.128
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; coarse dark fabric; lightly fired or sun-dried; smooth surface; barrel-shaped body with rump broken off; forelegs conjoined in a featureless projection; massive horns, now broken; pinched head with eyes pierced right through; hole through the body below the horns.
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), 23, p.40, illus. p.49
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