Lower section of standing figurine of a nude woman
Details
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Title
Lower section of standing figurine of a nude woman
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Associated place
Chagar Bazar (F203) (place of excavation) -
Date
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Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled and with incised decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
5.9 cm (height)
at hips 5.7 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1938.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1939.613
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; baked; pinkish-buff fabric, buff slip; prominent hips; girdle marked back and front by rows of shallow circular depressions above and below an incised line; rectangular panel of incised dots mark pubic area; part of the upper legs survives.
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), 270, p.176, illus. p.176
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