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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)
3169 87-28-21 (none) (none) Terracotta boat. Flat bottomed with ornamented bow and stern.
2691 87-28-10 (none) (none) Model stool. Drab clay with conventional rush hatching with a border: one leg missing.
(none) 35-1-142 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 35-1-141 (none) (none) (none)
18854 35-1-127 (none) (none) Leg and foot of a statue. Clay painted red. Preserved from below the calf downwards. The foot seems to be wearing a shoe of coarsely knitted woo(?) The leg has been broken at the ankle in antiquity and mended with bitumen.
8230 35-1-122 (none) (none) Clay figurine of a dog? in dark clay. [drawing] 1:1
20055 35-1-114 (none) (none) Glazed figurine. Man on horseback. Thin blue glaze bleached almost to white. One leg of the horse missing. Persian?
18787 35-1-111 (none) (none) Lion head. Terracotta. modeled in the round. Good style. [drawing 1:1]
20049 35-1-110 (none) (none) Terracotta mask. Puzuzu head.
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.
18565 33-35-64 (none) (none) Terracotta mould. For making a figurine of a nude standing female figure (entirely encrusted with salt)
18620 33-35-58 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of a lion, passing to the right with mouth open, tail over back.
18423 33-35-57 (none) (none) Animals head in dark clay. Hand modelled. The eyes incised, mouth and nostrils carefully rendered: good work.
18391 33-35-56 (none) (none) Clay figurine. Hand modelled, crude, of an animal. On the right shoulder an incised sign. [drawing of sign] (P.) Pl.44 vol. IV
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).
13506 33-35-44 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded male figure carrying a monkey on his shoulders. Monkey, head and arms of man in profile, torso of man full face. Arms bent at elbow, forearm parallel with ground. In his left hand the man holds a rope which is attached to the monkey's neck. Figure missing below waist but probably the man was leading a second monkey. Example is of importance chronologically for it was found in the Larsa filling and against the inner face of the SE wall of the Nebuchadnezzar Temenos. The rubbish stratum is well dated to the _Larsa_ Period. It seems therefore that this figure is also represented on the Asshur-Nasir-Pal reliefs was already in the Assyrian period a cult object of a considerable antiquity and was not simply (as formerly supposed) a man leading in tribute to the king. Common type.
1571 33-35-29 (none) (none) Clay figurine fragment of, head and shoulders; drab clay; moulded. Bearded figure with turban-like headdress, holding animal to his breast, the head of which only remains. Height c. M. 0.066
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.
18701 33-35-26 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Beaded man walking right: wears loose drapery and carries a flail (?) over his right shoulder: behind him a seated monkey.
2685 33-35-252 (none) (none) Grotesque mask. Drab clay, with pierced eyes. [drawing 1:1]
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.
18613 33-35-24 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of bearded male figure wearing a high headdress, with ornament falling down from it to below the shoulders on each side. Curls of hair on each side of the face, hands clasped, and wearing some kind of close-fitting dress. Broken below the waist.
18612 33-35-23 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of single female figure- hands clasped below the breast. wearing heavy ruffles or necklace round the neck. & a headdress of five large bunches of hair. Lines round the waist.

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