| Description (summary) |
2000-07-20 |
jl |
a small tripod vessel, two legs intact, with a woman's face, arms, and body on one side, and what appears to be her hair surrounding the pot neck and continuing in a stripe down the other side. The neck was right next to the vessel, broken off, and the rim itself is missing. [Input: K720JL.j] |
| 2018-03-15 |
yM |
naked female statuette. This figurine is one of the most important among the Urkesh corpus. The figure represents a woman with a small jar on the head and an elaborate hair style of long applied braids that drape on the back in gathered strands. The figurine is hollow on the inside, and it was probably used as a container for aromatic oils used in cult rituals. The assumption is that this figurine represents the lady of the Abi and it was used in the Abi rituals (Kelly-Buccellati 2002, Buccellati and Kelly-Buccellati 2001, Kelly-Buccellati 2019). Her features match this assumption. The eyes are big and wide. The nose is very well defined, even the nostrils are depicted with accuracy. The ears are large and leaning forward so she can hear what the spirits are saying (Collins, B.J 2004). The mouth is crooked, and her face is chubby, but the jaw line is defined. The head rests directly on the body, and the figure is wearing a necklace in the form of two bands decorated with small incised circles. The body is round and shaped like a jar with arms molded from the same piece of clay resting on the body and holding the small breasts between the thumb and the index finger. All five fingers on both hands are depicted accurately. The figure is wearing a bracelet on each wrist. The navel is a very shallow round incision, and the pubic triangle is depicted schematically with small incised vertical lines inside of it representing pubic hair. The legs are not represented, but instead, the figure has three knobs on the bottom to stands on. [Input: ZK226yM.j] |