Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (ANET)

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Terracotta: AN.Susa Loan (Louvre), no. 3

Object: Lower abdomen and upper legs of a nude female

Period: Bronze Age: Middle Elamite

Dimensions: H: 5.5cm. W: 4cm.

Region: Elam

Find Spot: Susa

Description: mouldmade, baked; pink core with cream slip, traces of arms held on abdomen, navel and rows of blobs in pubic triangle.

Reference: Moorey (2004) 170

Follow this link to the Bronze Age in Iran: Elam and the Western Highland Zone Chapter of the Catalogue