Female figurine
Details
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Title
Female figurine
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Associated place
Aleppo (place of purchase) -
Date
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Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled
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Object type
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Dimensions
13.1 cm (height)
at base 4.4 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.
AN1914.812
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; buff clay; baked; columnar body with bird-shaped head projecting back and front; prominent pointed nose; no facial features; piece of applied clay at the back to represent the hair dressed into a chignon; crudely modelled arms with hands placed on either side of the abdomen; upper and lower body featureless, with bottom roughly flanged and concave to allow it to stand.
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), 229, p.159, illus. p.159
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