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Terracotta Head from Niger in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2020
One of a Pair of Heads
3rd–11th century, excavated 1985
Object Details
Title: Pair of Heads
Date: 3rd–11th century, excavated 1985
Geography: Niger, Bura Region
Culture: Bura-Asinda-Sikka Site
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: (a) H. 7 15/16 × W. 3 11/16 × D. 1 15/16 in. (20.2 × 9.3 × 5 cm)
(b) H. 6 13/16 × W. 2 15/16 × D. 1 3/4 in. (17.3 × 7.4 × 4.5 cm)
Classification: Ceramics-Sculpture
Credit Line: Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niger
Between the third and tenth centuries, the dead were laid to rest at a site in present-day Niger downstream from the Inland Niger delta. The burial ground’s density and expanse suggest a veritable city of the departed. Several hundred individual graves were marked by upturned pottery urns, some of which were cylinders topped by figurative imagery. The most elaborate of these were full-bodied equestrians, while the most basic were highly abstract, independent heads.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/736507
3rd–11th century, excavated 1985
Object Details
Title: Pair of Heads
Date: 3rd–11th century, excavated 1985
Geography: Niger, Bura Region
Culture: Bura-Asinda-Sikka Site
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: (a) H. 7 15/16 × W. 3 11/16 × D. 1 15/16 in. (20.2 × 9.3 × 5 cm)
(b) H. 6 13/16 × W. 2 15/16 × D. 1 3/4 in. (17.3 × 7.4 × 4.5 cm)
Classification: Ceramics-Sculpture
Credit Line: Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niger
Between the third and tenth centuries, the dead were laid to rest at a site in present-day Niger downstream from the Inland Niger delta. The burial ground’s density and expanse suggest a veritable city of the departed. Several hundred individual graves were marked by upturned pottery urns, some of which were cylinders topped by figurative imagery. The most elaborate of these were full-bodied equestrians, while the most basic were highly abstract, independent heads.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/736507
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