Figurine of a dog with cuneiform inscription
Details
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Title
Figurine of a dog with cuneiform inscription
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Associated place
Mound W (Kish) (Library) (place of excavation) -
Date
Neo-Babylonian (c. 626 - c. 539 BC)
Kassite Period (1600 - 1155 BC)
Middle Assyrian Period (1350 - 1050 BC)
Neo-Assyrian (c. 911 - 612 BC)
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Material and technique
terracotta, mould-made
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Object type
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Dimensions
6.5 cm (height)
2.7 cm (width)
6.7 cm (length) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the Oxford Field Museum Expedition to Kish, 1924.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1924.302
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Catalogue text
Mouldmade; sun-dried or lightly baked; buffslip, greenish-buff fabric; seated on its haunches; snout broken; curled tail; flat base; inscription on left shoulder.
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), 190, p.139, illus. p.139
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