Figurine Fragment
B9449
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Nippur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
Object Number | B9449 |
Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
Period | Achaemenid Period |
Date Made | post 450 BCE |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Terracotta |
Iconography | Lovers | Man | Woman |
Description | CBS Register: terracotta figurines, fragment, lovers. c. 450 bc or later. PBS XVI: Man and woman in loving embrace. The man's arm is about the woman's shoulders and their heads incline towards each other. Dress and composition are Greek. The man steps forward and his bare knee is visible below his short tunic. His himation is wrapped over the left shoulder and arm and passes in festoon over the right. He has short hair, no beard and a flat turban. The woman is draped in a long plaited tunic. Her hands are muffled in her himation, the left gathering the folds at the waist, the right hanging in the festoon in front. She wares a stephane and a veil. molded. |
Credit Line | Gift of Hermann V. Hilprecht, Babylonian Expedition to Nippur III, 1896 |
Other Number | PBS XVI: 127 - Other Number | P264818 - CDLI Number |
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