Khafaje (Mesilim period) : Statuette of praying woman, from "Sin" temple IX, 4th-3rd millennium BC

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Strommenger, Eva
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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The legs are restorations. Head and body were found separately. The cloth with large fish-scale pattern used for the cloak can be regarded as a forerunner of the severe stylised tufts of the Fara-Ur I period.

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1964

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