Plaque Fragment
B9456
From: Iraq | Nippur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | B9456 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Terracotta |
| Iconography | Woman | Infant |
| Description | CBS Register: terracotta relief, lower part wanting. Woman, grasping her right breast with right arm while her babe on her left arm plays with her left breast. PBS XVI: nude woman with a child wom she carries on the hip. The composition is new, natural and graceful. She holds the baby in her left arm and lets him play with her breast. Her right hand covers the other breast. This is a charming note in the study in motherhood. molded relief. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Hermann V. Hilprecht, Babylonian Expedition to Nippur III, 1896 |
| Other Number | PBS XVI: 47 - Other Number | P264825 - CDLI Number |
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