Figurine Fragment
B2900
From: Iraq | Nippur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
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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