Caubet Annie, Martinez-Sève Laurianne. Figures d'Elam, terres cuites de Suze, Iran. Collection du musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités orientales

Rodez: Musée Fenaille, 2004. — 61 p. — ISBN: 2-9507907-5-5.Avec la collection de statues-menhirs, le musee Fenaille possede un ensemble exceptionnel de sculptures prehistoriques. Datees de la fin du Neolithique (vers 3300 - 2200 avant notre ere), elles sont aussi les premieres representations humaines a grande echelle erigees en Europe.A selection of 70 terracottas figurines from the old excvations at Susa, Elam (south Iran), provide and overview of the coroplastic production in Elam, from the origins ca 5000 to the end of the sassanid period ca 600 AD. The corpus of images provided by terracotta figures gives an insight on the culture and thought of ancient Elam, different in scope than that found on cylinder seals. The techniques and types evolves from the early hand modelled pillar figures to the invention of the mold ca 2000 BC and the addition of glaze during the medio- and neo elamite periods Coroplastic art waned under the Persian achemenid period to florish again during the hellenistic times, with the adoption of Greek models. For 6000 years, the majority were female figures, often naked or holding a baby. Figures with musical instruments depict either human musicians or magical demons. Molded plaques show a larger variety of mythological scenes.