id:			113887
accession number:	1933.172
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.172
updated:		2025-07-12 11:02:22.465000

Head of a Weeping Woman, 1–200 CE. Parthian Empire (247 BCE–224 CE). Terracotta; overall: 11.6 cm (4 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Joint Expeditions-Iraq Excavations Fund, 1933.172

title:				Head of a Weeping Woman
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creation date:			1–200 CE
creation date earliest:		1
creation date latest:		200
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creditline:			Joint Expeditions-Iraq Excavations Fund
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culture:	Parthian Empire (247 BCE–224 CE)
technique:	terracotta
department:	Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection:	Near Eastern Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 11.6 cm (4 9/16 in.)
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CITATIONS

	Van Ingen, Wilhelmina. <em>Figurines from Seleucia on the Tigris</em>. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1939. p. 303, pl. LXXIII, no. 1363a.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.10856/mode/2up

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