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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