Media Type: Monograph     
Title: Clay Figurines of Babylonia and Assyria     
Date: 1930     
Author: Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren     
Publisher: Yale University Press     

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
1232 (none) 1924,0920.73 (none) Terracotta relief showing 2 figures, male (right) and female (left) standing facing, each with hand upon the shoulder of the other. [drawing]
7060 (none) 1927,0527.233 (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded male in profile holding axe in left hand. Close fitting cap on head. Feet lost. E. [drawing 1:1]
7108 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Seated female, grotesque figure, abnormally large hands held against breast, hair done up in thick bunches at side. Heavy necklaces. Pellet eyes. [drawing 1:1]
1275 (none) 1924,0920.175 (none) Clay Frog. Light drab clay (with traces of green glaze underneath) pierced for suspension. Like U.1273 [drawing 1:1]
6652 (none) (none) (none) Mud statuette. Male figure. Baked. With coat of mud plaster, white washed. Bearded male hands clasped over breast. ?.
7140 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta plaque. Fragment. Warriors on either side of doorway of shrine. Lances standing upright from the ground: above crescent moon, geese and fish. [drawing 1:1]
2904 (none) 1927,1003.157 (none) Terracotta figurine. Drab: seated female with flounced dress. Horned headdress; two sunflowers and moon overhead. [drawing 1:1]
2935 (none) 1927,1003.151 (none) Terracotta figurine. Female: primitive snowman technique. [drawing 1:2]
2792 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta. God and goddess fully dressed: goddess' right arm around the god, and vice versa: dress flounced. Sketch: rough 1:2. [drawing 1:2]
3019 (none) (none) (none) Foundation tablets. Kurigalzu. Limestone. To dNin-BAD-LA, his king, Kurigalzu minister of Enlil, mighty king, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the 4 regions of the world. The Ga-(bur ), the old house decayed from ancient days, he built, and restored to his place. Same text on Copper U.3022. H.C.
2991 (none) 1927,1003.166 (none) Terracotta figurine. Male with headgear, in profile: stick in left hand. [drawing 1:1]
2818 (none) 1927,1003.145 (none) Terracotta animal. Prehistoric, reddish ware with painted square design and tooth design on back. Possibly pig. Head missing.
2819 (none) 1927,1003.148 (none) Clay sickle. Greenish drab model: prehistoric, with cutting edge and ends of blade painted black. [drawing 1:1]
2989 (none) 1927,1003.155 (none) Terracotta figurine. Seated goddess with flounced dress, holding two trees in hands and having two birds at her feet. Sketch slightly more than 1:2 [drawing]
6644 (none) 1927,0527.74 (none) Silver situla. Fragment. With silver handle hinged onto the rim. E.
121 (none) (none) (none) Clay relief. Moulded: much weathered. [drawing 1:1] [Annotated] Photo 69
6832 (none) 1927,0527.38 (none) Ram. Black diorite. Fragment. Part of one horn alone remains. E.
6820 (none) 1927,0527.224 (none) Faience mask. Female head? 3 holes perforated on either side. Chipped below neck. When found there was bitument filling in the eyebrows. E [drawing 1:1]
6940 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Lost below waist. Bearded male with monkey on head, monkey's feet resting on shoulders. Cord hangs down from monkey's neck in front of male figure. B.
6855 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded male figure carrying monkey on shoulders. Male figure is clothed in long flowing garment and wears a close fitting cap over the head. Twisted cord apparently suspended from monkey's neck and hands down in front of the male figure. A second monkey stands upon its hind legs in front of him. Twisted round man's wrist and in his right hand a staff? Cf. U.6921 same mould may have served for both. Also, U.6940 [drawing 1:1]
6169A (none) 1927,0527.229 (none) Baked clay figurine. Nude female standing on a lion. Left arm bent at elbow. E. [drawing 1:1]
7071 (none) 1927,0527.226 (none) Terracotta figurine. Female in Kaunakees dress, right shoulder exposed holding suckling child against breast. Feet of female lost. E. [drawing 1:1]
6846 (none) (none) (none) Seated goddess heavily draped in cloak and flounced skirt and wearing peaked headdress, feet resting on one goose and second goose standing right hand side of throne right hand held across body and holding a small figurine ? Left arm bent at elbow and held slightly upraised. Full face down to waist, in profile below. cf. Black diorite statue of (Ur Bau?) found in Nin-Gal sanctuary of Larsa temple. KP. U.. Cf also U.6939 terracotta mould of same figurine (though typically not the mould also fine. Diqdiqqeh. B. [drawing 1:1]
2868 (none) 1927,1003.162 (none) Terracotta figurine. Clothed woman in profile and suckling child. [drawing 1:1]
2943 47-29-49, 47-29-49 (none) (none) Clay tablet. Date: After the great wall was built (=Gimil-Sin) Text: Offering of the king. For the evening sacrifice, on the 7th of Ezen-mah. Before three locations of emblems. H.C.

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