This category contains depictions of a human who is depicted with developed breasts, large hips, and if nude, a defined pubic triangle.  

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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)
18966 35-1-108 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Seated figure of a woman wearing flounced skirt and suckling a child.
18775 35-1-105 (none) (none) Terracotta relief, fragment of. From the breasts upwards, a nude female figure in high relief: common features of 'Kassite' type.
18783 35-1-104 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female figure standing full face. The hair dressed in 5 outstanding curls, hands clasped over breasts: heavy multiple necklace and girdle and a shawl(?) which passes over the upper arms. Common type.
18066B 33-35-49 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure standing full face, hands clasped, pleated and flounced dress, hair elaborately waved. (A) Fragment from middle thighs upwards. (B) Complete (poor example).
18405 33-35-344 (none) (none) Clay jar sealing, fragment of. With elaborate design including human figures.
18702 33-35-27 (none) (none) Terracotta figure. Hand modelled. Grotesque and female with sharply pointed nose, enormous locks of hair and heavy necklaces. Arms and all body below waist missing and breasts (snowman technique) broken off.
18616B 33-35-25 (none) (none) [A-B] Terracotta relief. Of full face female figure, wearing a high headdress with long curled ornaments on each side falling onto the shoulders, a double bead necklace to which the hands are raised. Broken about the waist. Two examples.
18610 33-35-22 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of naked female figure: hands clasped below the breast, hair dressed in curls over the ears and necklace round the neck. Broken about the knees.
18527 33-35-20 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment of: one of the Al Obaid female figures: nude but with a black painted girdle: the feet and the body above the waist missing. [drawing]
18417 33-35-17 (none) (none) Baked clay figurine. Crudely hand-modelled. Nude female, to the hips only: the breasts attached in snowman technique (one missing), the nose pinched to a beak, the hair attached by a clay ribbon, the arms wing-like.
18306 33-35-15 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Moulded. Light greenish drab clay. Nude female figure with hands on breasts. Head very small and birdlike: hair treated as in archaic Samian statues: hips and thighs grotesquely wide. Completely, but a poor impression from the mould.
18086 32-40-45 (none) (none) Clay mould. For making figurines. Goddess wearing a flat low headdress. Fragment: only the head and ahoulders left.
18132 32-40-40 (none) (none) Figurine. Of unbaked clay. Nude female and upper part only preserved and the arms missing. Pointed white: the hair black.
18039B 32-40-35 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude female, -young girl- standing full face, hands clasped = hair in waves, double necklace. (A) = fragment, complete from thighs upwards. (B) Fragment, from waist up. Not from the same mould, but identical type. (C) Fragment from waist up = perhaps from the same mould as (B). (D) Fragment, from hips up = same type but from a smaller mould.
18047A 32-40-34 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female standing full face, hands clasped. (A) Complete to knees. (B) Complete but mould has failed between knees and feet. (C) Complete. (D) Complete from knees upwards. Poor impression. (E) The same figure but 2 heads struck from the same mould have been attached to one body, very clumsily. Doubtful authenticity. Said to be from Digdiggeh.
18048A 32-40-33 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female standing full face, hands clasped the hair dressed in a heavy rather Egyptian style. (A) Fragment, from clasped hands upwards (background removed). (B) Fragment (background left on) = from belly upwards: much worn.
18040A 32-40-31 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude girl standing full face, left hand to breast, right raised to shoulder level. (the body has an almost Praxitelian curve!). (A) Complete, except for the lower leg. (B) Fragment from the waist upwards. (C) Fragment, from the hips upwards.
18087 32-40-30 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Hand modelled, snowman technique. Nude female figure standing full face. Fragment, the legs missing. The hands clasped upon breast.
18046E 32-40-27 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Woman, nude, standing full face, with tambourine : over the shoulders a spotted cloak. Coarse type. (A) Fragment from navel upwards. (B) Fragment from thighs upwards. Different mould and flatter relief: no cloak. (C) Fragment from thighs upwards: similar to (A). (D) Fragment from waist upwards: similar to (C). (E) Fragment from belly to knees. (F) Fragment: head only. (G) Fragment: from waist upwards and a smaller mould.
18046C 32-40-26 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Woman, nude, standing full face, with tambourine : over the shoulders a spotted cloak. Coarse type. (A) Fragment from navel upwards. (B) Fragment from thighs upwards. Different mould and flatter relief: no cloak. (C) Fragment from thighs upwards: similar to (A). (D) Fragment from waist upwards: similar to (C). (E) Fragment from belly to knees. (F) Fragment: head only. (G) Fragment: from waist upwards and a smaller mould.
18063 32-40-23 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure, nude, standing full face and holding a tambourine before the breasts. Fragment from waist upwards.
18085 32-40-21 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. (fragment) Al Obaid type. Reptilian head projecting forward; broad, flat shoulders, the arms (missing) widened like wings: female breasts and slender waist. The eyes are strongly aslant. The top of the head rises in a peak. Broken away at waist.
18051 32-40-20 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female standing full face, hands clasped. Head unduly large, body thick and heavy: hair dressed in Egyptian style. Complete from knees upwards.
18138 32-40-19 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure standing in long plain dress with broad girdle, both hands holding an object to her breast. Complete.
18054 32-40-17 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female standing full face, hands clasped. Slender type. Complete.

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Body Parts - Captive - Child - Couple - Male - Position - Worshipper

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