| Object Number | B9453 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
| Period | Parthian | Achaemenid Period |
| Date Made | 547-331 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Terracotta |
| Iconography | Etana | Bird |
| Description | CBS Register: terracotta figurine, fragment (glued), traces of chalk paste and colors. (Parthian Period). Etana on the eagle's back PBS XVI: Venus on the goose. She is half nude, reclining on the back of the bird and embracing its neck with her two arms. The himation is wrapped about her lower limbs. The goose is walking with legs well apart and spreading into a base. The bird is too large for the woman on its back. This is perhaps a Greek adaptition of the Baylonian story of Etana and the egale. Hollow figurine with back and front molded apart, covered with a white slip and probably painted. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Hermann V. Hilprecht, Babylonian Expedition to Nippur III, 1896 |
| Other Number | PBS XVI: 123 - Other Number | P264822 - CDLI Number |
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