Figurine Fragment
B15451
From: Iraq | Nippur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
Object Number | B15451 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Terracotta |
Iconography | Woman | Baby |
Description | CBS Register: 1/2 clay statuette. Woman dressed in flounced robe holding a baby, offering him. PBS XVI: woman carrying a child. This time she is no longer nude but entirely dressed in a sleeved tunic of kaunakes. The child rests as before in her crossed arms, the right supporting the left, a natural attitude of all mothers. The nude baby, an all sufficient emblem of fruitfulness, plays in a childish way with his arms and legs. The woman has regular features, large eyes, curved nose, well modelled lips and a strong chin in a graceful oval. The waved hair is tied with a turban and falls on the shoulders. She wears a flouncey garment, bracelets and a belt. A white slip covers the brown clay. |
Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I-IV, 1888-1900 |
Other Number | PBS XVI: 44 - Other Number |
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