Male figurine clasping a kid or a lamb
On display
Details
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Title
Male figurine clasping a kid or a lamb
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Associated place
Tell Uhaimir (HMR 857, Temple area, 'Great Wall') (place of excavation) -
Date
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Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled
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Object type
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Dimensions
4.6 cm (width)
6.1 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the Oxford Field Museum Expedition to Kish, 1924.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 19 | Ancient Near East -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1924.253
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; baked; cream slip on pink fabric; pinched nose; crudely modelled head and shoulders; broken off at the waist.
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), 109, p.101, illus. p.101
