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Terracotta: AN.Susa Loan (Louvre), no. 4
Object: Male lute-player
Period: Bronze Age: First half of Second Millennium BC
Dimensions: H: 9cm. W: 5.5cm.
Region: Elam
Find Spot: Susa, (in red ink on the terracotta: 1863)
Description: headless; lower legs lost; seated; mouldmade; baked; pink core with cream slip; missing head originally reattached with bitumen in antiquity; wears necklace, with central pendant, and a tunic; holds the lute across the body as if playing it.
Reference: Moorey (2004) 168
Follow this link to the Bronze Age in Iran: Elam and the Western Highland Zone Chapter of the Catalogue