Description (Catalog Card): Terracotta relief. Grotesque nude female figure, full face, right arm raised, left hand to breast, pudenda strongly emphasized. Broken below the knees.2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): brought in from Dakheileh     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): ht 010 width 005     
U Number: 20048     
Object Type: Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Anthropomorphic      
Season Number: 12: 1933-1934      
Museum: British Museum      
Description (Modern): Fired clay plaque of a nude figure with bowed legs; breasts; rounded belly (perhaps suggestive of pregnancy?) and a heavily swollen pudendum or penis; hair coming down right side of face; wearing a necklace, bracelet and thin belt; right hand aloft and the other holding a small item below chest; rounded top; almost complete; mould-made.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta      
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1935,0112.611     
Measurement (Weight): 761     
Measurement (Height): 1081     
Measurement (Width): 551     
Measurement (Depth): 221     
Start Date: 2100BC1     
End Date: 2000BC1     
[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

Locations: 20048 | 1935,0112.61 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media: 20048 | 1935,0112.61 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Provisional Field Photo Album Provisional Field Photo Album (none) (none) (none)
Leon Legrain Note Card Leon Legrain Note Card (none) (none) (none)
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:76 Page:298 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:76 Page:298 (none)
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