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Terracotta: AN1980.338

Object: Bird-shaped ("dove"); figurine

Period: Bronze Age: Early Bronze Age IV

Dimensions: H: 3.3cm. W (across wings): 4.6cm.

Region: Syria

Find Spot: Tell es-Sweyhat, (SW 87, tench IIA, locus p.4.14)

Description: wings intact, remainder damaged; handmodelled; baked; cream slip, pinkish-buff fabric.

Reference: Moorey (2004) 237

Follow this link to the Bronze Age Syria Chapter of the Catalogue Part 1