2002.60.18: Head and Upper Part of a Statuette Holding a Smaller Figure
Sculpture
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2002.60.18
- Title
- Head and Upper Part of a Statuette Holding a Smaller Figure
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- 1900-1800 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Babylon (Mesopotamia)
- Period
- Old Babylonian/Isin-Larsa period
- Culture
- Mesopotamian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/148679
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta, mold made
- Dimensions
- 9 x 6 x 2.5 cm (3 9/16 x 2 3/8 x 1 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of W.C. Burriss Young
- Accession Year
- 2002
- Object Number
- 2002.60.18
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.
Descriptions
- Description
-
Mold-made terracotta figurine fragment depicting the head and partial bust of a figure with a smaller standing figure below the proper left shoulder of the larger figure. The terracotta is a light tan colour.
The figurine has a broad head, wearing an impressed convex diadem surmounted by a pair of horns; large eyes and nose, sensous mouth; necklace below chin. Appears to hold small standing figure on left side with bent right arm and vertical fold marking long cloak-like garment. Grainy like brown surface with darkish reddish brown interior; rear surface impressed with finger prints; left margin broken away; diagonal break from right shoulder to just below smaller figure.
Verification Level
This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu