Plaque
65-31-478
From: Iran | Hasanlu
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 65-31-478 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iran | Hasanlu |
| Archaeology Area | BBII |
| Period | Hasanlu Period IV |
| Date Made | 1000-800 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Ivory |
| Iconography | Human Head |
| Description | Small fragment showing stylized human head with erect fan like hair, heard lozenge-shaped eye; nose and mouth broken away. Muscarella Publication: "Apparently a fragment of a head, left. Extant are a lozenge eye surrounded by thick radiating lines that might be hair, and typically thick lips; hair seems also to fall behind the head. This could be a mythical creature; it does not resemble any human head in the repertory." |
| Credit Line | The Hasanlu Project; Robert H. Dyson Jr., 1964 |
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