Figurine of a pillar-shaped headless woman
Details
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Title
Figurine of a pillar-shaped headless woman
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Associated place
Jerusalem (Cave 1) (place of excavation) -
Date
750 - 650 BC
Iron Age (Near East) (1200 - 550 BC) -
Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 cm (height)
6.6 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by the British School of Archaeology Jerusalem, 1969.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1969.704
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Catalogue text
(Restored); baked; handmodelled body; grey-black core; orange fabric with traces of whitewash; partially hollow bell-shaped stand, broken below solid bust; lower arms missing; prominent breasts pointing downwards.
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), 302, p.210, illus. p.210
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