Upper part of a female figurine, 'mother goddess'

Title

Upper part of a female figurine, 'mother goddess'
Associated place

Chagar Bazar (A.738, Site A.C.) (place of excavation)
Date

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

terracotta, hand-modelled and with yellowish-cream slip
Object type

figurine
Dimensions

4.5 cm (height)
3.9 cm (width)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Allocated by the Trustees of the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1937.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Antiquities
Accession no.

AN1937.180

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Catalogue text

Handmodelled; baked; buff fabric, yellowish-cream slip; top of head broken; prominent pinched nose with eyes depicted with red paint; no mouth indicated; right arm brought round to cradle breast; both breasts and left arm broken; broken off at the waist; probably seated as no. 17-19; extensive use of paint to indicate necklace and girdle; the upper arms have encircling bands.

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

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