Torso of a figurine
Details
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Title
Torso of a figurine
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Associated place
Tell Brak (B.342) (place of excavation) -
Date
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Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled and with painted decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
7.6 cm (height)
5.2 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the Trustees of the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1938.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1938.94
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Catalogue text
Headless; crudely handmodelled; baked; pinkish buff fabric; red painted belt with tassels; flat body with left arm bent at the elbow and arm held close in to the chest; stub of projecting right arm; lower body modelled with two leg sockets on each side of a central projection pierced horizontally, either to fix moveable legs or to set the figure into a model chariot or directly on an axle shaft with wheels.
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), 268, p.176, illus. p.176
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