On view
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Upper half of a female votive statuette,
ca. 2600–2350 BCE
Mesopotamian
Early Dynastic Period, period III (ca. 2600–2350 BCE), ca. 2900–2350 BCE
2002-302
Information
Title
Upper half of a female votive statuette
Dates
ca. 2600–2350 BCE
Medium
Alabaster
Dimensions
12.3 x 18.5 x 6.5 cm (4 13/16 x 7 5/16 x 2 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2002-302
Place Made
Asia, Iraq, Sumer, Mesopotamia
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Said to have been in a private collection in Neuchâtel, Switzerland (inherited 1979); purchased by the Museum from Phoenix Ancient Art, New York, in 2002.
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2002," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 62 (2003): p. 107-161., p. 151
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 58-59 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 58
