Figurine of a boar
On display
Details
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Title
Figurine of a boar
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Associated place
Tell Atchana (AT 124 uncertain level) (place of excavation) -
Date
1420 BC - 1380 BC
Late Bronze Age (Near East) (1500 - 1200 BC) -
Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled
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Object type
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Dimensions
3 cm (height)
2.3 cm (width)
6 cm (length) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the Trustees of the British Museum, 1936.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 19 | Ancient Near East -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1938.179
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; baked; buff fabric; legs missing; ears and rump damaged.
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), 264, p.164, illus. p.164
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