Model stool or stand for figurine

Title

Model stool or stand for figurine
Associated place

Chagar Bazar (place of excavation)
Date

8500 BC - 3000 BC
Tell Halaf Period (6000 - 5000 BC)
Material and technique

terracotta, hand-modelled and with cream slip
Object type

model
Dimensions

1.5 cm (height)
at base 3.8 cm (diameter)
at top 3.5 cm (diameter)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Allocated by the Trustees of the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1936.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Antiquities
Accession no.

AN1936.93

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Catalogue text

Handmodelled; buff-fabric with cream slip; baked; drum-shaped, solid; flat, smoothed top with slightly projecting sides; the underside is rougher and "stippled"; possibly a jar-stopper or token.

In: Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)

slip

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