Object Number | B6310 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
Period | Early Babylonian Period |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Terracotta |
Iconography | Nude Woman | Necklace |
Description | CBS Register: torso of terracotta figurine, naked woman with necklace, pudenta, breast, left wanting, and nable prominently indicated.early Babylonian. PBS XVI: nude woman supporting or pressing her breasts with both hands, the traditional attitude of the Oriental servant of love. The figure is hand-modelled, flat and broad. The arms are pieces attached apart. FIngers and necklace and incised. The pubes is triangular patch with seven rows of dots. Breasts and navel are pellets of clay as usual in the most simple or primitive stage of hand-modelling. The two legs run into a point. |
Height | 2.6 cm |
Length | 7.9 cm |
Width | 6 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Hermann V. Hilprecht, Babylonian Expedition to Nippur III, 1896 |
Other Number | PBS XVI: 3 - Other Number | P263978 - CDLI Number |
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