Terracottas in the Yale Babylonian Collection

Abstract

This article presents a publication project concerning the terracottas in the Yale Babylonian Collection that began in 2018, suspended by the pandemic, and resumed in 2022. After defining the difficulties and the methodology, it presents an overview of the study and concludes by describing the publication plan.

Keywords

• terracottas
• coroplastic
• context
• technique
• paste
• firing