Figurine of a resting bird
Details
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Title
Figurine of a resting bird
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Associated place
Tell Brak (B.325) (place of excavation) -
Date
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Material and technique
terracotta
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Object type
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Dimensions
3.1 cm (length)
2.7 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the Trustees of the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1938.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1938.83
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; baked; buff fabric; solid body pierced from the base upwards, as if for mounting.
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), 285, p.178, illus. p.178
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