figurine
- Museum number
- 122873
- Description
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Fired clay figurine of a woman; head missing; hand-made; suckling a child with a reptilian like head, held on the left hip; black painted decoration on the adult includes a collar around the neck with a pair of ties running down the back, stripes and dots on the front and back shoulders, nipples, wrist bands and a girdle, as well as the eyes, a collar and a girdle on the child; hand-modelled in the round; the legs end in a conical base on which the figurine will stand upright, unlike the pellet figurines.
- Production date
- 5900BC-4000BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 13.80 centimetres
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Width: 4.90 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Found loose in soil. PFT: PFG/O [Shaft in town area from plano-convex brick level down to antediluvian tomb level; pre-flood grave/pit O?]. According to McAdam (2003) this is the only semi-complete painted female figure found at Ur, the only black painted figurine to be found in a grave and the head may have been broken off deliberately in antiquity.
- Location
- On display (G56/dc1)
- Acquisition date
- 1930
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 122873
- Registration number
- 1930,1213.173
- Additional IDs
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Excavation/small finds number: U.15376 (excavation number)