Female figurine with crown and long hair
On display
Details
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Title
Female figurine with crown and long hair
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Associated place
Syria (find spot) -
Date
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Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled
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Object type
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Dimensions
7.6 cm (height)
5.7 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Sir Arthur Evans, 1933.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 19 | Ancient Near East -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1933.1183
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; buff clay; body flattened front and back; prominent pinched nose, pierced pellet eyes and no mouth; prominent socket for forehead ornament; projecting pierced ears each retaining an earring of solid gold wire with overlapping ends, circular in section and thickest in the middle; prominent wedge-shaped headdress at the back of the head with central band, pierced on either side at the top; applied single-band necklace; abbreviated stub arms with pointed end; prominent hips; rouletted cross-bands on chest; three rouletted lines to depict pudenda; plain spherical stud of baked clay covered with gold foil fixed into the navel; square-sectioned legs taper to flat base; line divides legs front and back. In this case the cross-bands and pudenda are also rouletted on the back.
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), 231, p.159, illus. p.159
