Accession No
1947.2063 E
Description
Amulet depicting a bird, possibly a duck or dove. Made from white faience and pierced though the body. Decorated with two horizontal grooves indicating wings. Possible band of brown paint beneath neck. Fragment of the head is missing.
Place
Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur
Period
Neolithic
Source
Beck, Gundred Eleanor [donor]; Beck, Horace Courthope [collector]; Woolley, Leonard [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1947.2063 E; 1498 [Beck Coll.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Faience; Glass
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Duck? amulet in white faience.'
Event Date
Author: Annie Tomkins
Description (Physical description)
Historic description for 1947.2063 E: 'Crudely modelled with two grooves indicating feathers; pierced through body. Trace of band of brown paint around neck. Suggestive of painted pottery; White; ?Duck; ?Dove.'
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (1922-1934), excavated by Leonard Woolley in 1926.
Event Date 1926
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2063 E: 'Duck [Crossed out] Dove amulet? Traces of brown decoration, suggestive of painted pottery.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Annie Tomkins
Context (Acquisition Details)
Collected by Horace Beck and donated by his widow, Gundred Beck, in 1947. See Horace Beck’s handwritten catalogue, classified by region (WO1/1/2).
Event Date 1947
Author: Annie Tomkins
Description (Physical description)
Amulet depicting a bird, possibly a duck or dove. Made from white faience and pierced though the body. Decorated with two horizontal grooves indicating wings. Possible band of brown paint beneath neck. Fragment of the head is missing.
Event Date 21/9/2022
Author: Annie Tomkins
FM:32435
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