Terracotta
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7539 | (none) | (none) | B17206 | Terracotta figurine. Enthroned goddess wearing flounced kaunakes dress, high horned headdress, hair hangs below shoulders and ends in a curl. Both hands clasped over waist. High horned headdress rising in tiers. Throne has a straight back to it.. Behind the seat at an angle of 45 degrees to it are two fragmentary legs protruding well behind the plaque os that the plaque could have originally stood vertically, supported by its props on the table. On either side of the headdress horns and from either side of the top cow's ears. [drawing 1:3] | |
| 7570 | (none) | (none) | B17209 | Terracotta figurine. Grotesque. Missing below waist. Bearded male figure wearing fringed turbine wound round head in tiers? and supporting vertically against the body two ceremonial litni which rest on either shoulder, curved tops reaching top of head. 2 incisions around each litnus at the top in the straight portion. Nose thick and shapeless. [drawing 1:1] | |
 | 7687 | (none) | (none) | B17210 | Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Hands clasped below breast. Missing below knees. Hair represented by fine parallel raised bands and flowing down at side onto shoulders. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8113 | (none) | (none) | B17212 | Terracotta plaque. Bottom half missing. In low relief. Two upright figures heavily draped and wearing conical headdresses stand with hands upraised facing either side of vertical post. Post is broader below than above. It has a narrow neck and a concave top broader than the neck, supporting what may be a crescent moon? Behind each standing figures a mace with a rounded head, fixed vertically in the ground. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 8732 | (none) | (none) | B17214 | Model shrine? Baked clay. Shaped like a sentry box with a heavy convex back. Entrance has a rounded arch. Fixed onto the back of the recess a narrow strip of baked clay. Shrine has a high rounded top and rosettes decorate the face. Part of the top broken away. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 8640 | (none) | (none) | B17215 | Clay figurine. Crudely made of reddish clay, the surface covered with a bright dark hematite wash. A row of small holes denotes the main features, but there is also a minimum of relief modelling. [drawing] | |
| 7587 | (none) | (none) | B17216 | Owl? Unbaked clay. Oblong block with rounded edges. 2 cavities for eyes sockets and in each cavity a cowry shell to represent eye ball. Nose roughly pinched to form a projecting ridge between the eyes. Cavity in top of head 002 in diam. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 9234 | (none) | (none) | B17218 | Crescent Baked clay One side flat, one side slightly convex. [drawing] 1:1 | |
| 7677 | (none) | (none) | B17223 | Terracotta mould for adze head. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 8348A | (none) | (none) | B17228 | [A-C] Three figurines of animals. Roughly modeled in clay. Best example [A]: [drawing 1:1] | |
| 8348B | (none) | (none) | B17229 | [A-C] Three figurines of animals. Roughly modeled in clay. Best example [A]: [reference to 1:1 drawing] | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17309 | unknown | |
| 1113 | 31-16-910 | (none) | B19317 | Clay Figurine. Fragment of. below waist downwards; seated. moulded. drab clay [drawing 1:1] | |
| 1369 | 31-16-934 | (none) | B19341 | Figurine. Fragment. Shoulders downwards only: drab clay: moulded. Figure in pleated skirt holding an emblem in each hand. |
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