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Clay coffin from Iraq, Parthian, 1st century. The body and lid are decorated with stamped figures of soldiers covered with a green glaze. These so-called slipper-coffins with oval lids were built by joining slabs of clay to form a slipper-like shape, adding a finer clay skim and impressing or incising the decoration; the final stages involve covering the outside with a green glaze and firing the coffins in an upright position within the kiln. The hole in the foot of the coffin was probably intended to ease the manufacture. This is one of three complete coffins from Uruk, southern Iraq, once a flourishing religious centre. WK Loftus, who excavated them in 1850 records that he only succeeded in removing them 'after many fruitless attempts and the demolition of perhaps a hundred specimens'.
ANE, 92006

Location British Museum/London/Great Britain

Unique Identifier ART201340

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 5710px × 3059px

Photo Credit Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY

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