Head of terracotta figurine, woman with carved coiffure in front and bun at back
Details
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Title
Head of terracotta figurine, woman with carved coiffure in front and bun at back
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Associated place
Tell Brak (B.338) (place of excavation) -
Date
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Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled and with traces of a plastered surface
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Object type
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Dimensions
3.6 cm (height) -
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.
AN1938.85
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; baked; buff fabric with traces of a plastered surface; hair dressed in prominent curls across the brow, then falling in a single curl down the side of the face; pointed "bun" at the back (cf. Badre 1980, pl. XXX.3 for "bun").
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), 271, p.176, illus. p.176
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