Quadruped figurine
Details
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Title
Quadruped figurine
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Associated place
Choga Mami (C.M. 32) (place of excavation) -
Date
8500 BC - 3000 BC
Samarra Culture (5700 - 4900 BC) -
Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled and with cream slip
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Object type
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Dimensions
5 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1968.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1968.1625
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Catalogue text
(?Sheep); head and rear legs missing; creamslip; handmodelled and shaved; baked; black painted stripes on conjoined forelegs and rump; short tail.
In: Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)
Glossary of terms
slip
Further reading
Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), 14, p.37, illus. p.37
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