The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Standing female figure

Standing female figure

Period:: Early Dynastic IIIa
Date:: ca. 2600–2500 B.C.
Geography:: Mesopotamia, Khafajah
Medium:: Gypsum alabaster
Dimensions:: H. 8 1/2 x W. 2 5/8 x D. 1 3/4 in. (21.6 x 6.6 x 4.4 cm)
Classification:: Stone
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund and Gifts of Lucy W. Drexel, Theodore M. Davis, Helen Miller Gould, Albert Gallatin, Egypt Exploration Fund and Egyptian Research Account, by exchange, 1950
Accession Number:: 51.25.1

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 403

Provenance

1933-34, excavated by the Iraq Expedition of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; ceded to the Oriental Institute in the division of finds; acquired by the Museum in 1950, through an exchange of objects with the Oriental Institute
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What
Sculpture (24,350)

Stone (7,986)

Figures (5,008)

Gypsum (1,223)

Alabaster (1,191)
Where
Asia (68,073)

Iraq (2,493)

Khafajah (6)
When
8000-2000 B.C. (3,791)
In the Museum
Ancient Near Eastern Art (6,170)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Mesopotamia, 8000–2000 B.C.