Plaque with a nude female figurine
Details
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Title
Plaque with a nude female figurine
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Associated place
Tell Uhaimir (Mound A, 1034) (place of excavation) -
Date
Neo-Assyrian (c. 911 - 612 BC)
Kassite Period (1600 - 1155 BC)
Middle Assyrian Period (1350 - 1050 BC)
Neo-Babylonian (c. 626 - c. 539 BC) -
Material and technique
terracotta, mould-made and with cream slip and incised decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
14.7 cm (length)
4.4 cm (width) -
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.
AN1924.241
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Catalogue text
Standing; mouldmade; baked; cream slip, buff fabric; hands clasped below her breasts; repaired; hair, close to the head on top, marked with parallel incisions; side locks; folds of flesh on the abdomen.
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), 193, p.140, illus. p.140
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