Female figurine fragment, four plaited locks falling behind head
Details
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Title
Female figurine fragment, four plaited locks falling behind head
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Associated place
Harran (place of excavation) -
Date
2350 BC - 2000 BC
Early Bronze Age IV (Syria) (2400 - 2100 BC) -
Material and technique
terracotta, hand-modelled, and with applied and incised decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
4 cm (height)
1.9 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Allocated by the School of Oriental and African Studies Harran Expedition, 1965.
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Museum location
Museum department
Antiquities
Accession no.
AN1965.279
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Catalogue text
Handmodelled; baked; greenish-buff fabric; four plaited locks in applied clay with incised decoration on the back of the head; hair secured by a head-band; applied oval slit eyes; no nose or chin; prominent nose; applied ear lobes or earrings; necklace with incised decoration applied.
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), 225, p.158, illus. p.158
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