Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (ANET)
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Terracotta: AN1913.87
Object: Plaque with a dressed woman in low relief
Period: Iron Age: Achaemenid Period
Dimensions: H: 7.1cm.
Region: Northern Levant
Find Spot: no provenance
Description: mouldmade; baked; pinkish brown fabric; very worn surface; shaved edges; ankle-length dress with tasselled lower edge; hair falling in curls onto her shoulders; detail otherwise lost save for a disk held against her chest, perhaps a tambourine (cf. Beck 1996).
Reference: Moorey (2004) 377
Follow this link to the Northern Levant in the Iron Age Chapter of the Catalogue
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