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Holding institution:
Penn Museum
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Penn Museum
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Title:
Statuette
Description:
CBS Register: mud base with central hole and two cowrie shell inlaid on one side (owl face?)owl's head of unbaked clay, hollowed at the top as if to serve as a vase-stand, the beak pinched up and cowrie shells inset as eyes.
Type:
Statuette
Type (Narrower):
Sculptures
Type (Broader):
Object
Subject:
Owl?
Geographic region:
Iraq
Ur
Time period:
Isin-Larsa
Provenance:
British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1927
Medium:
Terracotta
Shell
Extent:
cm
Identifier:
30936
Source:
B17216
U.7587
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