Plaque
65-31-352
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iran | Hasanlu
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 65-31-352 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iran | Hasanlu |
| Archaeology Area | CC31/351 Room 2 |
| Date Made | 1000-800 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Ivory |
| Iconography | Figure | Skirt |
| Description | Ivory is black, right profile of a standing figure in a skirt. Muscarella Publication: "A barefoot figure dressed in an ankle-length garment, right. Shoulder-length hair, held by a fillet, is rendered in chunky style; the eye is oval, the nose fleshy and straight-bridged from the forehead, the mouth thick, the chin broken away; a swelling above the mouth may be a mustache. The garment has a V-neck, a fringed hem, and a vertical decoration joined at the left by a horizontal one, all rendered in chunky style. The figure carries an unidentified object - antler/branch?- in the left hand; the right is missing. The plain top edge is intact; the right and bottom edges are narrow bands and intact." |
| Credit Line | The Hasanlu Project; Robert H. Dyson Jr., 1964 |
| Other Number | HAS64-900 - Field No SF |
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