Nude female figurine clasping her hands on her abdomen
Details
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Title
Nude female figurine clasping her hands on her abdomen
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Associated place
Tell Uhaimir (HMR 847, Well Court, Temple Area) (place of excavation) -
Date
Old Babylonian (c. 1900 - 1600 BC)
Akkadian Empire (c. 2350 - 2150 BC)
Ur III (c. 2112 - 2004 BC)
Isin-Larsa Period (2000 - 1800 BC)
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Material and technique
terracotta, mould-made and with cream slip and traces of bitumen
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Object type
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Dimensions
5.5 cm (width)
7.3 cm (height) -
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.
AN1924.245
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Catalogue text
Mouldmade; baked cream slip on pink fabric; broken straight across the abdomen, feet also missing; repaired in antiquity with bitumen across the break line.
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), 108, p.101, illus. p.101
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