Male figurine representing the god Papsukkal or Ninshubur
Details
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Title
Male figurine representing the god Papsukkal or Ninshubur
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Associated place
Mound W (Kish) (Room 1 of 'Library') (place of excavation) -
Date
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Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled and with incised detail
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Object type
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Dimensions
at base 16.8 x 4 x 4.2 cm (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the Oxford Field Museum Expedition to Kish, 1924.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1924.701
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Catalogue text
Roughly handmodelled with incised details; sun-dried brown clay; (now much restored); traces of black paint. Standing, wearing horned headdress with three pairs of horns crudely represented by incised lines; square cut beard; left arm held forward, hand lost (it originally held "a long thin copper staff"); right hand held up in a threatening posture, hand lost (originally held "a copper weapon"); ankle-length garment; set on a square base. According to Langdon two such figures were found in foundation boxes; but it was "impossible to remove them in their original condition".
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), 189, p.138, illus. p.138
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