Description (Catalog Card): Terracotta relief. Upper part only, moulded. Grotesque female figure with elaborate headdress. Hands clasped below breasts. [drawing 1:1]2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): Temenos Wall NW     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): [L.51mm, W.46mm based on 1:1 drawing]     
U Number: 688     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Anthropomorphic      
Season Number: 01: 1922-1923      
Description (Modern): Relief plaque, blessing goddess (top part)     
Description (Modern): Figure of blessing goddess; baked clay; moulded; relief; on plaque; flat back and straight top; top part only; nude goddess wearing necklaces and bracelets faces front with hands clasped; wears horned head-dress with two horns and band around forehead; two smaller horns inbetween; hair in bunches on either side of face and two locks coming down front of body; round cheeks, heavy jaw and heavy-lidded eyes with thick eyebrows.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 116520     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1923,1110.109     
Measurement (Weight): 291     
Measurement (Height): 501     Broken at waist
Measurement (Width): 461     Width across chest
Measurement (Thickness): 171     Thickness across chest
[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

Locations: 688 | 1923,1110.109 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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Media: 688 | 1923,1110.109 Export: JSON - XML - CSV Woolley's Catalog Cards

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Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:23 Page:178 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:23 Page:178 (none)
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Excavation Context: Ur >> Temenos Wall | TW >> TWNW


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