Human Figurine

B3502

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

Object Number B3502
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Section Near Eastern
Materials Terracotta
Iconography Bel
Description

CBS Register: terracotta figurine, fragment, god. Bel.

PBS XVI: Male figure. Same type. [hand-modelled, primitive, with club and scimitar] The turban is wanting. The right hand is placed on the chest, instead of the left as in the preceding figures. Are the dressed male figures the counterpart of the nude woman with clasped hands? They have no marks of divinity, except the figure in the shrine and a few others with weapons. They may be worshipers in respectful attitude, or minor protectors.

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur II, 1890
Other Number PBS XVI: 185 - Other Number

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