Figurine Fragment

B9449

Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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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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