Human Figurine
B6303
From: Iraq | Nippur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | B6303 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
| Period | Early Babylonian Period |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Terracotta |
| Iconography | Woman |
| Description | CBS Register: upper part of a terracotta figurine, woman with heavy locks and necklace, holding her breasts. early Babylonian. PBS XVI: nude woman. Same type, hand-modelled and primitive. Hips and shoulders are prominent, neck and waist are lost in the mass. The hands are placed under the breasts. A pellet is missing on the depressed navel. Necklace and fingers are incised. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Hermann V. Hilprecht, Babylonian Expedition to Nippur III, 1896 |
| Other Number | PBS XVI: 15 - Other Number | P263971 - CDLI Number |
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