Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (ANET)

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Terracotta: AN.Susa Loan (Louvre), no. 8

Object: Headless torso of a nude female

Period: Bronze Age: Ur III/Shimashki Period

Dimensions: H: 3.7cm. W: 3cm.

Region: Elam

Find Spot: Susa, (in red ink: 2550)

Description: mouldmade; baked; cream core and slip; necklace; hands clasped on abdomen; bracelets; cf. no. 165 above.

Reference: Moorey (2004) 166

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