This category includes hollowed out objects with beads, clay pellets, or seeds that rattle when shaken. Some of these are bird or pig in shape, and have also been tagged zoomorphic figural objects.  Others are circular with pinched edges.  

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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)
997 (none) (none) (none) Clay Rattle of Greenish white clay. Pierced across, rim double and scalloped. [drawing]
8488 (none) (none) (none) Rattle Baked clay Circular box, straight sided. Top and bottom slightly convex. Rim of covers sharply indented. 2 diameters incised at right angles to one another at top and bottom. Perforated through middle [drawing]
842 (none) (none) B15197 Clay vase of drab clay. In form of a grotesque pig with lifted snout. New Babylonian period.
7598 (none) (none) (none) Rattle in form of terracotta pig. Part of head and 2 legs missing. Incised line down back and incised parallel curves down sides to indicate hair? [drawing 1:1]
7510 (none) (none) (none) Child's rattle. Baked clay. 2 flattened hemispherical parts joined mouth to mouth, indented circumference. Pierced through the middle. Common in IIIrd Dynasty cemetery at Diqdiqqeh.
7110A (none) (none) (none) Terracotta rattle. Common type. 2 convex hemispheres joined together concave sides inwards. Circumferences roughly moulded to form rope like decoration. B.
6864 (none) 1927,0527.249 (none) Clay rattle. Common type. Nobbed decoration round rims. E.
3197 33-35-256 (none) (none) Child's rattle. Terracotta: drab.
3163B 33-35-257 (none) (none) Children's rattles. Mince-pie pattern with scalloped edge.
3163A (none) (none) (none) Children's rattles. Mince-pie pattern with scalloped edge.
3155 (none) (none) (none) Child's rattle. Very fine specimen of smooth workmanship with crosses incised and line round joining the lines.
3067 (none) (none) (none) Child's rattle. Of reddish ware with scalloped edge.
2939B (none) 1927,1003.144 (none) Terracotta pig. Head missing. (B) Has snout and eye. Sketch less than 1:1 [drawing]
2916 (none) 1927,1003.143 (none) Terracotta hen. Head missing. [drawing 1:1]
2560 31-16-993 (none) (none) Child's rattle. Drab clay; circular, of two pieces fitted together. Hole in one side.
17931 (none) (none) (none) Rattle clay. [drawing 1:1]
17879 (none) (none) (none) Copper object. Egg-shaped and pierced with triangular holes at each end a knob for attachment, the two pierced inverse directions inside is a lump of metal of uncertain shape. [drawing 1:1]
1761 (none) (none) B15707 Terracotta figurine. Pig. 2 rear legs missing, incised on belly. P. 15707 [drawing 1:1]
1752 (none) 1924,0920.130 (none) Rattle. Clay. Normal type, two serrated wheels.
17188 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta pip. (generally rattles, some solid). Various types, all roughly hand-modelled.
17184B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Clay bird. (Usually hollow and containing a pebble, to serve as a rattle, but sometimes solid). Many examples. [drawing]
17184A 31-43-317 (none) (none) [A-B] Clay bird. (Usually hollow and containing a pebble, to serve as a rattle, but sometimes solid). Many examples. [drawing]
16350 (none) (none) (none) Rattle. Terracotta. Normal type. Double hemishere with double serrated edge fastening the join. [drawing 1:1]
16284 (none) (none) (none) Clay rattle, complete. Drab clay. [drawing]
15738 (none) 1935,0113.77 (none) Childs rattle in shape of Terracotta bird. Roughly modeled; head and stump. [drawing 1:1]
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