Anthropomorphic figurines of the second millennium BC from Tell Arbid, preliminary report Cover Image

Anthropomorphic figurines of the second millennium BC from Tell Arbid, preliminary report
Anthropomorphic figurines of the second millennium BC from Tell Arbid, preliminary report

Author(s): Maciej Makowski
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: terracotta anthropomorphic figurines; Middle Bronze Age; Late Bronze Age; Khabur Ware period; Mitanni period; Syria; North Mesopotamia

Summary/Abstract: The collection of 2nd millennium BC anthropomorphic figurines from Tell Arbid, a site in the Khabur river basin in northern Mesopotamia, comprises just eight specimens, but it introduces some new types of representations that have not been attested so far in the region. A comparison with figurines of the 3rd millennium BC illustrates changes in the anthropomorphic minor arts of the time. Finally, some of the figurines seem to attest to the presence of motifs deriving from outside of Mesopotamia, from the Levant and Anatolia, in the iconography of the region.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: XXII
  • Page Range: 617-626
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English