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Location:

  • Jordan, Amman
  • geo:31.987646,35.976452
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -6750~ / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=33064

Annotations

The PPNB  B lime-plaster statue of 93 cm high.It was discovered in a large pit about 2.5 meters under the surface. Dates ca 6 750 +/- 80 BC.

Sources:

  1. Fawzi Zayadine, Sculpture in Ancient Jordan, in: Treasures from an Ancient Land: The Art of Jordan, ed. Piotr Bienkowski, Stroud, UK: Alan Sutton 1991, pp.31-61
  2. Kathryn W. Tubb, The statues of 'Ain Ghazal: discovery, recovery and reconstruction, Archaeology International. 5 2001, pp. 47-50 - http://www.ai-journal.com/articles/abstract/10.5334/ai.0514/
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Ain_Ghazal_Statueshttps://web.archive.org/web/20070221174052/http://menic.utexas.edu/ghazal/

Relevant museums

Archeologisch museum van Amman

Het oude archeologische museum van Jordanië.

Amman, Jordan Museum

The new historical museum of Jordan; substantial archaeological collection.

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

Uriah from Ain Ghazal

Ain Ghazal Statue

Amos from Ain Ghazal

Ain Ghazal Statue

Ain Ghazal, Cache of Statues II

Cache of plaster statue


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