Figure with Streams of Purifying Water in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Tile: figure with streams of water flowing from jars held in his hand

Near Eastern, Mesopotamian, Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian Period, 883–612 B.C.

Medium or Technique: Painted or glazed terracotta

Classification: Architectural elements

Accession Number: 1997.189

Text from: "Wall paintings from provincial Assyrian palaces; Assyrian borderlands." A beardless male figure or a female figure with streams of "purifying" water flowing from jars held in his/her hand.