6420 | 1927,0527.238
| Description (Catalog Card): | Terracotta figurine. Red. Head missing. Hands clasped over breast in attitude of prayer. Figure stands on a pedestal square in front, rounded at back. Two incised lines on pedestal front and wedge shaped markings. Figure clothed in long flowing garment, which has a thick band in front at the weist and a V. shaped collar below neck. E. [drawing 1:1]2 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | From KPS |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Clay3 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | L. of fragment 100mm, Greatest W. 40mm, Th. 20mm [L.105mm, W.47mm based on 1:1 drawing] |
| U Number: | 6420 |
| Object Type: | Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Anthropomorphic |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Season Number: | 04: 1925-1926 |
| Description (Modern): | Fired clay plaque depicting anthropomorphic figure in relief; mould-made; head missing; clasped hands; flat base; stands on platform decorated with triangles; wears plain skirt and wide, decorated belt with crossbelts across chest; nipples shown; bracelets on wrist; traces of red paint.1 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 127431 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1927,0527.238 |
| Measurement (Height): | 1011 |
| Measurement (Width): | 471 |
| Measurement (Depth): | 291 |
| [1] Data collected by British Museum research team. |
| [2] Woolley's description |
| [3] Material as described by Woolley |
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| KPS Site | KPS | This excavation area was designated Kings Palace South (KPS) because it explored walls that were south of the main giparu building (KP). Some of these late walls cut into earlier levels of the giparu in its southern portion. The walls were found to be of patchwork domestic structures, two houses (A to the south and B to the north) separated by a street (scanty remains of a House C were also found). They were formed mostly of broken and reused bricks of the Larsa/Old Babylonian period and probably dated to the Kassite period, repaired and reused into the Neo-Babylonian. Beneath these walls were found indications of the earlier Temenos wall and various artifacts of the Early Dynastic period. The excavation area overall included part of the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall to the west, the part that contained the Nebuchadnezzar gate where inscribed bricks of this king were uncovered in foundation boxes. It stretched southward to the edge of the excavation areas called EH and DP. | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | British Museum Photo Negatives | British Museum Photo Negatives | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Clay Figurines of Babylonia and Assyria | Clay Figurines of Babylonia and Assyria | 1930 | Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren | (none) |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Leon Legrain Note Card | Leon Legrain Note Card | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| UPM Field Photo numbers | UPM Field Photo numbers | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:32 Page:134 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:32 Page:134 | (none) |
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References
British Museum Photo Negatives, .
Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren. (1930) Clay Figurines of Babylonia and Assyria, Yale University Press.