Figurine of a bull's head
Details
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Title
Figurine of a bull's head
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Associated place
Tell Brak (find spot) -
Date
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Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled and with cream slip
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Object type
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Dimensions
6.7 cm (height)
6.5 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1938.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1939.255
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; baked; broken off at the neck; pink fabric with creamslip; horns broken off and mouth damaged; protuberance on the forehead; punched circular eyes.
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), 297, p.180, illus. p.180
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