Body fragment of a female figurine
On display
Details
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Title
Body fragment of a female figurine
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Associated place
Tell Atchana (AT39, 42, Level III, G18-H18) (place of excavation) -
Date
1380 BC - 1250 BC
Middle Bronze Age I (Near East) (2100 - 2000 BC) -
Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled
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Object type
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Dimensions
5.5 cm (height)
4.1 cm (width)
1.1 cm (depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the Trustees of the British Museum, 1948.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 19 | Ancient Near East -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1948.487
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; baked; flat back; headless and legless; greyish-buff fabric; stub arms (one lost); single-band necklace with incisions; incised cross-bands on chest; round cavity for navel; rouletted lines representing genital area; pronounced hips.
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), 259, p.173, illus. p.173
