plaque
- Museum number
- 116731
- Description
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Fired clay plaque showing a woman drinking through a straw from a jar resting on the ground while being penetrated from the rear by a nude male; moulded and fired.
- Production date
- 1800BC (about)
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.90 centimetres
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Width: 7.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See also BM.116661
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1925
- Acquisition notes
- Deposited as part of a small collection itemised as "2 tablets, 1 plaque (2 figures), 1 glazed animal" on 3 June 1925; donation reported to Trustees 6 June 1925 as follows: "A collection comprising two cuneiform tablets, a blue-glaze figure of a priest wearing a cloak in the form of a fish, from Babylonia, and a plaque with a religious representation. The tablets are of the new Babylonian period, one containing a private letter, the other a deed devoting certain slaves and property to the services of the goddesses Ishtar and Nana"; single item of correspondence dated 15 June 1925 in ANE archives.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 116731
- Registration number
- 1925,0615.4
