Relief
31-43-577
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Ur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 31-43-577 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Ur |
| Archaeology Area | found a little above floor level in No. 8-10 Paternoster Row |
| Locus | A.H. above House 24 |
| Date Made | ca. 2000-1700 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Terracotta |
| Iconography | Goddess |
| Description | one of the very large terracottas such as seem to have stood at the doors of shrines: A goddess wearing the horned mitre and holding the jar from which come streams of water; she ahs a short-sleeved garment of the kaunakes type but the flounces instead of being in tiers are in long wavy lines like water. "The Goddess of the Waters" |
| Height | 12 cm |
| Length | 73 cm |
| Width | 30.5 cm |
| Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1931 |
| Other Number | U.16959 - Field No SF |
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