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Location

  • Jordan, Amman
  • geo:31.987663,35.976517

Period or year

  • -6750~ / unknown

Classification

  • altar
  • Visible

Uriah from Ain Ghazal

data access 33110

The PPNB  B lime-plaster statue of 38.5 cm high.It was discovered in a large pit about 2.5 meters under the surface. The statue was made 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/

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2017-01-08) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/33110
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Uriah from Ain Ghazal. https://vici.org/vici/33110, accessed 2026-11-09.