Figurine of a seated woman

Title

Figurine of a seated woman
Associated place

Chagar Bazar (place of excavation)
Date

8500 BC - 3000 BC
Tell Halaf Period (6000 - 5000 BC)
Material and technique

terracotta, hand-modelled
Object type

figurine
Dimensions

6.3 cm (height)
4.1 cm (width)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Allocated by the Trustees of the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1936.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Antiquities
Accession no.

AN1936.92

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Catalogue text

Handmodelled; baked; badly damaged; headless body restored from fragments burnt in a fire to a reddish black colour.

In: Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)

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