15376 | 1930,1213.173
| Iconography: | Human/zoomorphic >> Female 1 |
| Technique: | Manufacture >> Molded >> Modeled 1 |
| Description (Catalog Card): | Clay figurine. TO painted ware. Head missing. Nude female suckling an infant. Dots on the right shoulder & stripes on the left, and she wears a necklace & bracelets & a black girdle.2 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | PFT.PFG./O |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Clay3 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | H. 135mm |
| U Number: | 15376 |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Object Type: | Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Zoomorphic |
| Season Number: | 08: 1929-1930 |
| Description (Modern): | Figurine |
| Description (Modern): | Anthropomorphic figurine; fired pale clay; hand-modelled in the round. Representation of standing female(?) figure with extended body, angular shoulders, protruding breasts and long legs terminating in a conical base. Head missing. Shown breast-feeding an infant with elongated head held on the left hip. Black painted decoration on the adult includes a collar around the neck with a pair of ties running down the back, stripes and dots on the front and back shoulders, nipples, wrist bands and a girdle; details of the genital area are incised; painted decoration on the infant includes the eyes, a collar and a girdle.1 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 122873 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1930,1213.1731 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 461 |
| Measurement (Height): | 1371 |
| Measurement (Width): | 491 Shoulders |
| Measurement (Width): | 231 Hips |
| [1] Data collected by British Museum research team. |
| [2] Woolley's description |
| [3] Material as described by Woolley |
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | PFG/O | (none) | (none) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leon Legrain Note Card | Leon Legrain Note Card | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | 1955 | Woolley, L. | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:62 Page:077_V | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:62 Page:077_V | (none) | |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:62 Page:77 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:62 Page:77 | (none) |
- 4 Media
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Context
Ur >> Pit F >> Graves >> PFG/O
References
Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.