Figurine of nude goddess Astarte
Details
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Title
Figurine of nude goddess Astarte
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Associated place
Akje Keri (find spot) -
Date
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Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled and with incised decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
7.6 cm (height)
4.3 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Sir Leonard Woolley, 1913.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1913.292
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; baked; plaque-like; over-fired clay with a dark core and greenish-buffslip; head broken off, also broken across the waist; arms crudely modelled with hands, fingers incised, brought round and placed on the chest; long hair braid on either side of the face applied in clay with stippled decoration; broad necklace across the upper body, again in applied clay with stippled decoration.
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), 228, p.159, illus. p.159
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