Male bearded figurine in Assyrian style holding a cup to his chest
On display
Details
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Title
Male bearded figurine in Assyrian style holding a cup to his chest
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Associated place
Kish (place of excavation)Mound W (Kish) (possible) (possible 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 and with cream slip
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Object type
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Dimensions
4 cm (width)
7.5 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
Ground floor | Gallery 19 | Ancient Near East -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1924.246
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Catalogue text
Mouldmade; baked; cream slip, buff fabric; in a tight-fitting flounced garment; holding an alabastron(?); immediately below the beard; grasped by the right hand, supported by the left, hair and beard separated in linear bands of curls; broken at knee level.
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), 205, p.142, illus. p.142
