Highly-polished female figurine with hands folded below breasts
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Details
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Title
Highly-polished female figurine with hands folded below breasts
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Associated place
Konya (Chukur Kend, Pisidia) (find spot) -
Date
8500 BC - 3000 BC -
Material and technique
steatite
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Object type
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Dimensions
4.5 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by H. A. Ormerod, 1911.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 19 | Ancient Near East -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1911.290
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Catalogue text
Standing; nude; green steatite, ("serpentine"), the lower part of the body lighter in colour than the higher; apart from a slight projection of the buttocks the back of the figurine is flat; the top of the head is rounded with the ears rendered by notches cut into the stone. Small incisions denote the eyes, the mouth indicated by a gash, but the nose is omitted. The arms are folded across the chest, indicated only by grooves above and below; wide hips taper into the legs, which are short with the feet simply rendered by an incised line at the ankles; incised lines render the pubic triangle and the division between the legs.
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), 8, p.35, illus. p.35
