Plaque of a woman squatting on a stool with legs spread while holding her feet

Title

Plaque of a woman squatting on a stool with legs spread while holding her feet
Associated place

Tell Uhaimir (HMR 564, 'House Ruins', Room 1) (place of excavation)
Date

2000 BC - 1600 BC
Akkadian Empire (c. 2350 - 2150 BC)
Old Babylonian (c. 1900 - 1600 BC)
Material and technique

terracotta, mould-made
Object type

figurine
Dimensions

at top 7.5 cm (width)
9.5 cm (height)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Allocated by the Oxford Field Museum Expedition to Kish, 1924.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Antiquities
Accession no.

AN1924.259

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Catalogue text

With curved upper profile tapering to square lower profile; mouldmade; baked. cream slip on buff fabric; head broken off; forward facing woman squatting on a stool with legs spread and arms placed as if framing her legs and touching or grasping her feet; the structure of the four-legged stool clearly modelled with a curved seat.

In: Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)

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