Figurine of goddess wearing bronze ring around neck
Details
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Title
Figurine of goddess wearing bronze ring around neck
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Associated place
Aleppo (place of purchase) -
Date
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Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled and with pierced decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
16.4 cm (height)
at arms 5.1 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Sir Leonard Woolley, 1914.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1914.109
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled, flat back, flattened front; reddish clay; prominent pinched nose, pierced pellet eyes, no mouth; prominent hole for ornament on forehead; double-piercing in each ear; tall, narrow headdress pierced twice at the top; double band of applied necklace with incisions; copper or copper alloy neck ring survives; abbreviated stub arms ending in points; prominent hips; rouletted cross bands on chest; deep navel cavity; five rouletted lines represent pudenda; incised line separates legs; bottom pinched to indicate feet; no incision on 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), 255, p.171, illus. p.171
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