Glenn:
The pic that reminds me most of the one in your presentation is the one labeled UBAID.JPG - It's scanned from 47 of Seton Lloyd's 'The Archaeology of Mesopotamia, Revised Edition' - 1984 Thames and Hudson ISBN84-50036, and is only unusual in that it is a male figure while most of these figurines were female. The extension of the head was fitted with a bitumen headdress in most cases. This particular item is from an Ubaid grave at Eridu, but the 'coffeebean eyes, conical headdress and shoulder ornamentation' are said to be widely spread through the ubaid period and earlier.
UR4KBC.jpg was scanned from page 17 of 'Old World Civilizations' 1994 Weldon Owen Pty Limited ISBN 0-06-250270-0. The original is in the Iraq Museum, Bagdad and represents the more normal female figurine. This one carries a child and was dated to about 4,000 BPE. It's originally from the preurban levels of Ur.
UR4KBPE.JPG was scanned from plate XVIII of V. Gordon Childe's 'New Light on the Most Ancient East', 1957 grove Press, Inc.ISBN 57-5854. This figurine also has the headdress in place and is from the British Museum.
These three examples are all I've come across here at home. My own interest in Sumer begins in the Uruk period which follows the Ubaid culture so I don't have much information on these figures. The Ubaid period stretches back to about 5,500 BPE according to recent sources and continued untill about 4,000 BPE.
Have Fun
Terry
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