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Woman Spinning, from Susa (modern Shush, Iran).
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Title
Woman
Spinning
, from
Susa
(modern
Shush
,
Iran)
.
Date
8th-7th c. BCE?
Cultural Context
Near Eastern
Iranian
Middle Eastern
Style/Period
Near Eastern
Elamite
Persian (culture)
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Reliefs (sculptures)
Bas-reliefs (sculpture)
Carvings (visual works)
Fragments
Scenes (depictions)
Spinning (textile process)
Sitting
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Profiles (figures)
Women
Spinners
Textile workers
Servants
Domestics
Working class
Workers
Social classes
Costume (mode of fashion)
Borders (ornament areas)
Hairstyles
Fans (costume accessories)
Cooling
Thread
Spindles (textile working equipment)
Furniture
Stools (seating furniture)
Seating furniture
Legs (furniture components)
Lion's paw feet
Paw feet
Seats (furniture components)
Tables (support furniture)
Stands (support furniture)
Fish
Animals
Food
Subject
Sculpture
Bas-reliefs
Spinning
Sitting
Domestic life
Women
Women domestics
Servants
Working class
Employees
Social classes
Clothing & dress
Borders (Ornament areas)
Fans (Accessories)
Hairstyles
Thread
Spinning apparatus
Furniture
Stools
Seating furniture
Tables
Stands (Furniture)
Fish
Aquatic animals
Animals
Food
Seafood
Description
Relief
fragment
.
Material
Bitumen compound
Bitumen (material)
Measurements
3 5/8 x 5 1/8" (9.2 x 13 cm)
Technique
Sculpting
Molding (forming)
Carving (processes)
Relief (sculpture techniques)
Bas-relief (sculpture technique)
Work Type
Sculpture
Reliefs (sculptures)
Bas-reliefs (sculpture)
Carvings (visual works)
Repository
Musee du Louvre (Paris, France)
Source
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. New York: Abrams, 1995. (fig.2-30, p.85)
Rights
Photo/illustration credit/reproduced in Stokstad courtesy: © Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris; Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
337-34.jpg
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