Female figurine plaque
Details
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Title
Female figurine plaque
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Associated place
Larsa (find spot) -
Date
Old Babylonian (c. 1900 - 1600 BC)
Akkadian Empire (c. 2350 - 2150 BC)
Ur III (c. 2112 - 2004 BC)
Isin-Larsa Period (2000 - 1800 BC)
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Material and technique
terracotta, mould-made and with cream slip
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Object type
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Dimensions
11.6 cm (height)
5.5 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Mr H. Weld-Blundell, 1924.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1924.499
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Catalogue text
Nude female in low relief; mouldmade; baked; cream slip on pink fabric; worn surface; hair dressed in side locks; necklace; hands clasped on abdomen; feet set together on a projecting platform.
In: Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)
Glossary of terms
slip
Further reading
Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), 140, p.112, illus. p.112
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