| Object Number | B1954 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Terracotta | Plaster |
| Iconography | Woman |
| Description | CBS Register: cast. bust of a woman in terracotta from Nippur PBS XVI: Hollow bust, a rattle with a loose clay ball inside. It figures a woman, tambourine player, pressing the round disc to her breast. She has a long tunic and a peaked cap with side projections. Her hair is waved, parted and drawn back. Her face is broad with a pointed chin. The eyes are drawn in the corners, the eyebrows are heavy. The three-pointed headdress, in the Greco-Parthian period, is the attribute of childish gods Horus, Bacchus or Tammuz. molded in two pieces. Cast of an original in Constantinople. |
| Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition Fund Purchase, 1888-1891 |
| Other Number | PBS XVI: 135 - Other Number |
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