Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (ANET)

Terracotta: AN1913.48

Object : Upper part of a woman and child

Period : Iron Age: Achaemenid Period

Dimensions : H: 6.5cm. W: 4cm.

Region : Northern Levant

Find Spot : no provenance

Description : handmodelled body, mouldmade face; baked; brown fabric with smooth, slightly polished surface; back of head damaged; under a narrow browband the hair falls in three or four distinct lines of tiny blobs to the shoulder, framing the face; well modelled, prominent facial features with oval eyes and small mouth; traces of a necklace; upper body and arms crudely modelled by hand, the arms brought round to hold a now headless child against the left side of her body; broken off across abdomen.

Reference : Moorey (2004) 374

Follow this link to the Northern Levant in the Iron Age Chapter of the Catalogue