Western Asiatic lead female figurine. Early Bronze Age (late 3rd millennium BC)
The figurine, very thin and flat on the back, depicts a nude female en face with her hands clasping her breasts. Eyes are oval, placed high on the forehead; hair is rendered by raised lines across the top of the head; long neck is decorated with four bands of a horizontal, tight-fitting necklace.
Cf. O. W. Muscarella 1988, Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp 412–413, no. 567.
Weight: 4.98 g.
Diameter: 33.72 mm.