ICOBASE

Object identity:IC010810-10

Museum identity: Ashmolean museum, Oxford: AN1923.383

Object: Fragment of a plaque

Period: Bronze Age: Akkadian to Old Babylonian Period, 2000 – 1600 BC

Dimensions: H: 9.6cm. W: 4.3cm.

Region: Sumer

Description: nude female in low relief; headless and footless; mouldmade; baked; cream slip, pink fabric; distorted in moulding and shaved with a knife; an object held in each hand, probably a rattle, below the breasts; girdle. When acquired it had an alien male head, probably of post-Achaemenid date, attached to it (1923.384).

Reference: ANET-23Bronze1MesII-Catalogue-2.

IC010810-10