.bk A12
.fl ZK226yM.j
.fd item description
.ed ZK226
.ei yM
.rd ZC315
.ri yM

i 30
ds female anthropomorphic statuette. This figurine is very important from the view point of execution and function. It is clear that whoever made it was a professional artist, and it was made with such precision for a purpose. The head is slightly cubic in shape and the facial features are very well defined. The right eye is partially preserved and it is an applied round piece of clay. The cheek bones are high and very prominent. The jaw line is very clearly defined and the chin is narrow with a round tip. The mouth is small. The nose is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom but well defined and very proportioned with the rest of the facial features. The brow ridge is prominent giving her majestic appearance. The brows are indicated with small incised lines representing the eyebrow hair. On both sides of the head, there are two projections that could represent a hair style covering the ears, and they are decorated with four small perforations on each side, probably used to hang more accessories. The figure is wearing a disk like double lobed earrings (only the right one is fully preserved). The figure is also wearing a necklace in the form of two narrow bands. The first band covers only the front of the neck and the second band (below the first one) continues all the way to the back of the neck and down the back forming a counter weight. The arms are broken off but the shoulders are preserved. The applied breasts are small and has the shape of round tipped cones, and the position of the breast is slightly higher than normal. The waist is thin and the navel is depicted as a small perforation. On the lower part of the abdomen there are three horizontal stripes above the pubic triangle where the pubic hair is depicted schematically with small incised vertical lines. The hips are wide and the buttocks is very prominent and made using molding technique. The legs were not depicted, and the figurine stood on its round hollowed base. This figurine was found in three pieces and was reconstructed together. What is interesting about this figurine is that the body is hollowed starting from below the breasts. On the top of the head, there is a depression that forms a small container that was probably used for ointments and healing substances.

i 48
ds anthropomorphic figurine, probably representing a male figure due to its robust nature. The figure is bald with a very long neck. The shape of the head is peculiar because it is elongated at the top. The figure could be wearing a hat but it is not well defined. The ridge of the nose is very high. The arms are short knobs (if broken, it is not indicated in the drawing). Shoulders are wide, while the waist is thin. Overall, the torso is long, and because the legs are broken, we have no way of knowing if they are in fact proportioned with the torso. The figure is wearing a suit resembling a modern one-piece bathing suit. The only difference is that the suite is open from the back. The suit covers the genital area from the front but does not cover the buttocks from the back. This gives the impression that this figurine probably represented a worker or a handy man at work wearing a protective piece of clothing. Rick Hauser argues that the figure is wearing the skin of an animal, most probably a carnivore, where the claws are draping over the shoulders. The execution of this figurine is weak with no attention to proportions.

i 108
ds 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.

q 19.1
ds left part of an anthropomorphic female figurine’s hip. The waist is very thin and the hips are wide which gives an extremely feminine shape. The pubic triangle is represented, with deep small vertical incisions to schematically indicate the pubic hair. The hip was probably made using the molding technique where the artist would mold the two side separately and then join them together.