Rattle in the form of a bird
Details
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Title
Rattle in the form of a bird
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Associated place
Ur (find spot) -
Date
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Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled
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Object type
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Dimensions
7.5 cm (length)
7 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by the Trustees of the British Museum, 1935.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1935.780
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; baked; reddish-buff fabric; head missing (or perhaps never added); hollow with a rattle inside.
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), 132, p.110, illus. p.110
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