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Terracotta: AN1931.169

Object: Plaque with a "shrouded god" in relief

Period: Bronze Age: Akkadian to Old Babylonian Period

Dimensions: H: 9.9cm. W: 7cm.

Region: Sumer

Description: mouldmade; baked; cream slip on pinkish-buff fabric; broken off at waist level; single pair of horns on a horned crown with broad headband incised in squares; well modelled eyes, ears, nose and mouth; square beard with incised wavy lines; each arm, with a bracelet, bent at the elbow grasping the handle of a lion-headed sceptre (facing outwards); against his upper body on each side.

Reference: ANET-23Bronze1MesII-Catalogue-1.

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