Author: Guitty Azarpay
The Iranian World: Essays on Iranian Art and Archaeology Presented to Ezat O. Negahban, Edited by Abbas Alizadeh, Yousef Majidzadeh, Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi, Iran University Press, Tehran, 1999

Abstract:
To the hundreds of molded, terracotta figurines, dated on stratigraphic grounds to the third and second millennia BC, found largely in French, British, and Iranian excavations at Susa and its environs in the past century must be added hundreds of others acquired through the art market by museums and private collections throughout the world. The present paper treats a small, homogeneous and unpublished group of such figurines, on loan to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, in San Jose, California, whose typology and provenance may be gauged by reference to Elamite terracottas from the mid-fifteenth century BC, of the post-Sukkalmah through the Middle Elamite (ca. 1450-1100Bc) periods, excavated by Ezat O. Negahban, at Haft Tappeh, in Khuzestan (Negahban 1991). The following remarks are intended as a preface to the analysis of the figurines in the Rosicrucian Museum, presented below by Shoki Goodarzi-Tabrizi.

Bibliography:
Azarpay, Guitty, Elamite Terracotta Figurines, The Iranian World: Essays on Iranian Art and Archaeology Presented to Ezat O. Negahban, Edited by Abbas Alizadeh, Yousef Majidzadeh, Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi, Iran University Press, Tehran, 1999, pp 131-136.