Relief
| Object Number: | 31-43-577 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: |
Middle East Galleries Currently On Display |
| Provenience: | Iraq Ur |
| Archaeology Area: | found a little above floor level in No. 8-10 Paternoster Row |
| Locus: | A.H. above House 24 |
| Section: | Near Eastern |
| Materials: | Terracotta |
| Iconography: | Goddess |
| Height: | 12 cm |
| Length: | 73 cm |
| Width: | 30.5 cm |
| Credit Line: | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1931 |
| Other Number: | U.16959 - Field No SF |
Description
one of the very large terracottas such as seem to have stood at the doors of shrines: A goddess wearing the horned mitre and holding the jar from which come streams of water; she ahs a short-sleeved garment of the kaunakes type but the flounces instead of being in tiers are in long wavy lines like water. "The Goddess of the Waters"
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Discovering the Past: Highlights from the University Museum (IBM) (20 Jun 1989 - 20 Aug 1989) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Middle East Galleries (21 Apr 2018) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Book] Woolley, Charles L. Ur Excavations: The Old Babylonian Period.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Plate 64/Figure 1 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Olbrantz, John, and Kawami, Trudy S. 2013. Breath of Heaven, Breath of Earth: Ancient Near Eastern Art from American Collections.. University of Washington Press. : Page/Fig./Plate: 89/7 | View Objects related to this |
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