Sumerian votive statuette
- Title:
- Sumerian votive statuette
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (American museum, Philadelphia, established 1887) (reproduction)
Unknown (original)
- Photographer:
- Mihaloew, Andreya
- Date:
- after 1937
3rd millennium BCE
2014 (image)
- Site:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (reproduction)
Khafaje, Iraq (Mound A, Temple of Nintu) (discovery site, 1937) (original) - Location:
- White Hall (showcase outside Room 409), Cornell University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (reproduction)
Khafaje, Iraq (Mound A, Temple of Nintu) (discovery site, 1937) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0840
- Accession Number:
- 777
- File Name:
- CCC_0840.tif
- Culture:
- Sumerian
- Style/Period:
- Early Dynastic
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
limestone sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Sumerian sculpture
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 23.5 x 9 x 6.5 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a cast of a gray limestone male votive statuette from the Nintu temple at Khafaje, Iraq, housed in the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The figure stands on a low, round base, looks forward, and clasps his hands in front of his abdomen. His chest is bare and he wears a slightly flared skirt with a leafy fringe. His hair is parted in the middle and falls to his chest in stylized wavy locks. The statue was originally carved with a long beard, which was subsequently chiseled away. The original likely had inlaid eyes, but these are now missing. This cast has been painted a yellowed ivory color (which approximates alabaster, not gray limestone) with irises indicated in blue.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. 37-15-29 - Bibliography:
- E. A. Speiser, "New Discoveries at Tepe Gawra and Khafaje," AJA 41 (1937), 190-193
Jean M. Evans, The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture: An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Henri Frankfort, Sculpture of the Third Millennium B.C. from Tell Asmar and Khafajah (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939) - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.