Figurine of a humped-backed bull

Title

Figurine of a humped-backed bull
Associated place

Chagar Bazar (E.190) (place of excavation)
Date

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

terracotta
Object type

figurine
Dimensions

4.8 x 9.9 cm (height x width)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Allocated by the Trustees of the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1938.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Antiquities
Accession no.

AN1938.90

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Catalogue text

Hand-made; baked; buff clay overfired to a greenish tinge; legs and horns broken off.

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

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