Fragment of torso from figurine
On display
Details
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Title
Fragment of torso from figurine
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Associated place
Jericho (Reg. no. 3776, field no. JPD 400.26) (place of excavation) -
Date
8500 BC - 3000 BC -
Material and technique
terracotta
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Object type
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Dimensions
17 cm (height)
25 cm (width)
11 cm (depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1958.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 19 | Ancient Near East -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1958.772
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Catalogue text
(Restored); highly stylized; hand-made; solid core of "clay" coated with a red-coloured surface surviving only on the front and on part of one side; the torso expands downwards to a flattened but rough surface at the bottom (as restored); perhaps the original base line.
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), 3, p.33, illus. p.33
