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Location:

  • Jordan, Amman
  • geo:31.987955,35.976646
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -6750~ / unknown

Class:

  • Building (other)
  • invisible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=33112

Annotations

The most interesting discovery at Ain Ghazal were the caches of plaster statues intentionally buried beneath the floor of long-abandoned houses. According carbon c-14 this deposists was placed ca 6,750 +/- 80 BC.

Sources:

  1. 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/
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Ain_Ghazal_Statueshttps://web.archive.org/web/20070221174052/http://menic.utexas.edu/ghazal/
  3. Keffie Feldman, Ain-Ghazal (Jordan) Pre-pottery Neolithic B Period pit of lime plaster human figures, in: Brown.edu. (n.d.). Ain-Ghazal (Jordan) Pre-pottery Neolithic B Period pit of lime plaster human figures. [online] Available at: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/architecturebodyperformance/326.html [Accessed 17 Dec. 2015].

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

Amos from Ain Ghazal

Ain Ghazal Statue

Uriah from Ain Ghazal

Ain Ghazal Statue

Ain Ghazal, Cache of Statues II

Cache of plaster statue


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