Human Figurine
B2758
From: Iraq | Nippur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
Object Number | B2758 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Terracotta |
Iconography | Man | Bel? |
Description | CBS Register: terracotta figurine, fragment, god (?), very primitive, eyes and nose attached prominently, 2 arms streatched out like scare-crow. Bel (?) PBS XVI: Nude woman of a very unusual type, flat and oblong with wing-like projections for arms and shoulders. The breasts were pellets added and now missing. The eyes are pellets on either side of a pinched nose. The neck is not disengaged and there is no trace of a mouth. The flat band about the face may be a turban. Locks of hair fall on the shoulders. |
Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I,1889 |
Other Number | PBS XVI: 32 - Other Number |
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