15379 | 31-16-734
| Iconography: | Accessories >> Belt 1 |
| Iconography: | Clothing >> Nude 1 |
| Iconography: | Human/zoomorphic >> Female 1 |
| Iconography: | Human/zoomorphic >> Position >> Hands on Hips 1 |
| Technique: | Manufacture >> Handmade >> Hand Modeled 2 |
| Technique: | Decoration >> Addition >> Painted |
| Technique: | Decoration >> Subtraction >> Incised |
| Description (Catalog Card): | Clay figurine. Female figure, nude, with hands on waist. She wears a high headdress, or high coiffure, originally covered with bitumen: traces remain of black apint in the eyes and of red paint on the cheeks.3 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | Found by the hands in 2 pieces PFT. PFG./T |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Clay4 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | H. 140mm |
| U Number: | 15379 |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Object Type: | Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Anthropomorphic |
| Season Number: | 08: 1929-1930 |
| Culture/Period: | Ubaid |
| Description (Modern): | Ubaid figurine "Lizard face" female figurine with belt around hips, hands at waist, pointed shoulders, coffee bean eyes, and tall headdress. Reddish Brown Clay. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta |
| Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): | 31-16-734 |
| Measurement (X): | 143 |
| Measurement (Y): | 52 |
| Measurement (Z): | 26 |
| Notes: | mislabeled in UE4, Plate 20, as U.15507 |
| [1] Iconography tagged by Penn Museum research team. |
| [2] Technique tagged by Penn Museum research team. |
| [3] Woolley's description |
| [4] Material as described by Woolley |
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | PFG/T | (none) | (none) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leon Legrain Note Card | Leon Legrain Note Card | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | 1955 | Woolley, L. | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:62 Page:80 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:62 Page:80 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:62 Page:080_V | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:62 Page:080_V | (none) |
- 4 Media
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Context
Ur >> Pit F >> Graves >> PFG/T
References
Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.