Seated female figurine

Title

Seated female figurine
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
Object type

figurine
Dimensions

6.5 cm (height)
3.7 cm (width)
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.

AN1936.91

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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)

slip

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