Seated female figurine
Details
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Title
Seated female figurine
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Associated place
Chagar Bazar (T.550) (place of excavation) -
Date
8500 BC - 3000 BC
Tell Halaf Period (6000 - 5000 BC) -
Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled and with yellowish-cream slip
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Object type
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Dimensions
6.5 cm (height)
3.7 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the Trustees of the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1936.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1936.91
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; baked; buff fabric; yellowish-cream slip; head, arms, breasts and left leg broken off; traces on the surface suggest that the arms originally cradled the breasts as on no. 17; the right leg is drawn up with bent knee; brownish black paint denotes a necklace, a girdle and a "shoe".
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), 18, p.38, illus. p.38
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