Figurine Fragment

B2900

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B2900
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Section Near Eastern
Materials Terracotta
Iconography Woman?
Description

CBS Register: terracotta figurine, male, primitive. arms, legs, and breasts merely indicated.

PBS XVI: Nude male (?) figure of archaic type, modelled by hand out of a solid mass. The nose is pinched, the eyes are pellets. Ears and mouth are scarcely visible. The arms are attached separately, the left raised up, the right close to the side. Two small pellets mark the place of the breasts above a depressed navel. No clear indication of the sex.

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I,1889
Other Number PBS XVI: 153 - Other Number

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