Description (Catalog Card): Terracotta relief. Grotesque nude female figure, full face, right arm raised, left hand to breast, pudenda strongly emphasized. Broken below the knees.2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): brought in from Dakheileh     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): ht 010 width 005     
U Number: 20048     
Object Type: Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Anthropomorphic      
Season Number: 12: 1933-1934      
Museum: British Museum      
Description (Modern): Fired clay plaque of a nude figure with bowed legs; breasts; rounded belly (perhaps suggestive of pregnancy?) and a heavily swollen pudendum or penis; hair coming down right side of face; wearing a necklace, bracelet and thin belt; right hand aloft and the other holding a small item below chest; rounded top; almost complete; mould-made.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta      
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1935,0112.611     
Measurement (Weight): 761     
Measurement (Height): 1081     
Measurement (Width): 551     
Measurement (Depth): 221     
Start Date: 2100BC1     
End Date: 2000BC1     
[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

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Media: 20048 | 1935,0112.61 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:76 Page:298 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:76 Page:298 (none)
Provisional Field Photo Album Provisional Field Photo Album (none) (none) (none)
Leon Legrain Note Card Leon Legrain Note Card (none) (none) (none)
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