Statuette

65-31-578

From: Iran | Hasanlu

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 65-31-578
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iran | Hasanlu
Archaeology Area BBII
Period Hasanlu Period IV
Date Made 1000-800 BCE
Section Near Eastern
Materials Ivory
Description

Ivory figurine fragments; 30 fragments from probably the same human figurine in the round showing low relief chevron decoration, and nude arm fragments; the piece was made from separate pieces held together with dowels whoe holes remain.

Muscarella Publication: "Tip of a wing in the round decorated on both sides with a thick herringbone pattern."

Muscarella Publication: "Seven wing fragments belonging to figures in the round (there are actually twenty-two more fragments from the same provenience). Three wings have plastically rendered herringbone patterns, four have incised herringbone patterns."

Credit Line The Hasanlu Project; Robert H. Dyson Jr., 1964

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