Description
Description - Standing female figurine with flat upper toso and rounded lower torso. Arm stubs on side and breast(s) stuck on. Thick layer of bitumen at neck break, perhaps indicating a reattachment of the head which is now lost. Upper torso slightly listing toward the left.
Event - MAKING
Material - clay, baked with fine vegetable inclusions
Technology: Torso formed out of a single piece of clay rounded at base and then pressed for a flat bottom. Pinched, pulled smothed and painted Breast[s] attached on chest and over shoulder[s] Bitumen on neck presumably to reattach the head in antiquity (now lost)
Decoration- Painted with red paint, only traces remain - appears to be a pattern known from Tepe Gawra types two stripes over both shoulders, crossing between breasts, and crossing again on back. A ring around the neck, obscured by bitumen. Traces of paint also at left side of waist, traces of horizontal stripe(s) on right side approx 10mm above base.
Event - USE
Stands on flat base and back without support.
Event - DEPOSITION
found in unspecified fill
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Event - EXCAVATION - 1932
Findspot - TT, subsurface
ID - Excavation field number A78
Event - MUSEUM DEPOSIT
ID - British Museum, Middle East Department BM127705 & 1934.0210.393
Event - MUSEUM STUDY 2023
Condition - 2/3 complete, head, left breast broken off, attachment scars remain. Bitumen layer on neck break indicates an ancient repair.
Type - Anthropomorphic Standing [Gawra Type] <-- TBD;
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SIZE [Format.DC]
Length - 58.3mm
Width -
- 29.6mm at shoulders
- 20.3 at waist
Thick-
- 7.5mm at neck break
- 19mm at breast
- 19mm at waist
- 29.8mm at base
- 30mm at base
;ID - Excavation field number A78
ID - Museum number BM127705
