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

dc.contributor.authorStrommenger, Eva
dc.contributor.authorPhotographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatialMesopotamia (Khafajah, Iraq)
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-06T04:53:06Z
dc.date.available2020-02-06T04:53:06Z
dc.date.created1964
dc.date.updated2020-02-06T04:53:06Z
dc.descriptionThe 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.
dc.format.extent35mm
dc.format.mediumslide
dc.format.mediumb&w
dc.identifierANUA 682-4122
dc.identifier.otherWA-38
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/201417
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.provenanceDigitised by the Australian National University in 2020
dc.rights.licenseThis image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.
dc.subjectMesopotamia : Eridu-'Ubaid period, Early Sumerian period, Fara-Ur I period, Imperial Akkadian period
dc.subjectsculpture
dc.subjectstone
dc.subjectbook scan
dc.titleKhafaje (Mesilim period) : Statuette of praying woman, from "Sin" temple IX, 4th-3rd millennium BC
dc.typeImage
dspace.entity.typeANUArchivesItem
local.description.notesSource : Eva Strommenger, The Art of Mesopotamia, translated by Christina Haglund, London, Thames & Hudson, 1964, Illustration 61
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4962371

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