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Figure with Streams of Purifying Water in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Figure with Streams of Purifying Water in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010
Tile: figure with streams of water flowing from jars held in his hand

Near Eastern, Mesopotamian, Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian Period, 883–612 B.C.

Medium or Technique: Painted or glazed terracotta

Classification: Architectural elements

Accession Number: 1997.189

Text from: "Wall paintings from provincial Assyrian palaces; Assyrian borderlands." A beardless male figure or a female figure with streams of "purifying" water flowing from jars held in his/her hand.

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