Figurine Fragment

B15451

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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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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