Female figurine with bird-head

Title

Female figurine with bird-head
Associated place

Syria (North) (find spot)

Gloucestershire (place of purchase)
Date

2000 BC - 1001 BC
Middle Bronze Age I (Near East) (2100 - 2000 BC)
Material and technique

terracotta, hand-modelled, and with cream slip
Object type

figurine
Dimensions

13.7 cm (height)
4.8 cm (width)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Purchased, 1949.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Antiquities
Accession no.

AN1949.180

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Catalogue text

Handmodelled; buff clay, cream slip; prominent pinched nose with slight chin; pierced pellet eyes; prominent socket for forehead ornament; pierced ears; tall, wedge-shaped headdress pierced twice at top; single band incised necklace; abbreviated stub arms; pierced pellet navel; no cross-bands; two rouletted lines mark pudenda; prominent hips taper to stub feet and tiny convex base.

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

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