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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
| 18567 | 33-35-21 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Female figure, standing, facing right. Both hands raised in gesture of prayer. Long simple drapery, horned head dress. | |
| 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] | |
| 18420E | 33-35-19 | (none) | (none) | Clay figurines. Crudely hand-modelled. No heads, flat wing-like arms, flat bases. | |
| 18418B | 33-35-18 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Crudely hand-modelled. Female figure, to top of hips. Beak-like nose, no eyes, the hair pinched out to a flat horizontal ridge, the arms wing-like. B) Similar, but only head and neck. | |
| 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. | |
| 18416 | 33-35-16 | (none) | (none) | Clay figurine. Crudely hand-modelled in dark clay. Made to the top of the hips only: in the flat base is a hole to attach the figure to a trunk of some other material. The head is very small and birdlike, the arms like wings (? Under a cloak?) | |
| 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. | |
| 18247 | 33-35-14 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Of two bearded male figures advancing full face, side by side, holding mace and litnus. In very poor condition. | |
| 18237 | 33-35-13 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Fragment of male figure, archaic type. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 18215 | 33-35-12 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief, back of bedstead with two birds facing each other: below, crosses in circles (fragmentary) | |
 | 18211A | 33-35-11 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine moulded in the round coarse late work and a very flaccid impression. (A) Broken in half. (B) Intact. |
| 17873I | 32-40-68 | (none) | (none) | Model bricks. Miniatures in baked clay of plano-convex bricks. Two have crescent incised on the side some have marks. Some of the bricks are not plano-convex but flat-topped with a long curved frog. L. 50mm, W. 30mm, H. 12mm [unclear what these measurements reference]. Others are not brick-shaped but oval and round on top with long frog. Others are straight on one side and curved on the other and rise on the top with a double curve frog with these are what maybe mixing bowls, square or circular, hollow and containing a lump of bitumen mixed with earth. [drawing] |
| 17873H | 32-40-67 | (none) | (none) | Model bricks. Miniatures in baked clay of plano-convex bricks. Two have crescent incised on the side some have marks. Some of the bricks are not plano-convex but flat-topped with a long curved frog. L. 50mm, W. 30mm, H. 12mm [unclear what these measurements reference]. Others are not brick-shaped but oval and round on top with long frog. Others are straight on one side and curved on the other and rise on the top with a double curve frog with these are what maybe mixing bowls, square or circular, hollow and containing a lump of bitumen mixed with earth. [drawing] |
| 17873G | 32-40-66 | (none) | (none) | Model bricks. Miniatures in baked clay of plano-convex bricks. Two have crescent incised on the side some have marks. Some of the bricks are not plano-convex but flat-topped with a long curved frog. L. 50mm, W. 30mm, H. 12mm [unclear what these measurements reference]. Others are not brick-shaped but oval and round on top with long frog. Others are straight on one side and curved on the other and rise on the top with a double curve frog with these are what maybe mixing bowls, square or circular, hollow and containing a lump of bitumen mixed with earth. [drawing] |
| 17873F | 32-40-65 | (none) | (none) | Model bricks. Miniatures in baked clay of plano-convex bricks. Two have crescent incised on the side some have marks. Some of the bricks are not plano-convex but flat-topped with a long curved frog. L. 50mm, W. 30mm, H. 12mm [unclear what these measurements reference]. Others are not brick-shaped but oval and round on top with long frog. Others are straight on one side and curved on the other and rise on the top with a double curve frog with these are what maybe mixing bowls, square or circular, hollow and containing a lump of bitumen mixed with earth. [drawing] |
| 17873E | 32-40-64 | (none) | (none) | Model bricks. Miniatures in baked clay of plano-convex bricks. Two have crescent incised on the side some have marks. Some of the bricks are not plano-convex but flat-topped with a long curved frog. L. 50mm, W. 30mm, H. 12mm [unclear what these measurements reference]. Others are not brick-shaped but oval and round on top with long frog. Others are straight on one side and curved on the other and rise on the top with a double curve frog with these are what maybe mixing bowls, square or circular, hollow and containing a lump of bitumen mixed with earth. [drawing] | |
| 17873D | 32-40-63 | (none) | (none) | Model bricks. Miniatures in baked clay of plano-convex bricks. Two have crescent incised on the side some have marks. Some of the bricks are not plano-convex but flat-topped with a long curved frog. L. 50mm, W. 30mm, H. 12mm [unclear what these measurements reference]. Others are not brick-shaped but oval and round on top with long frog. Others are straight on one side and curved on the other and rise on the top with a double curve frog with these are what maybe mixing bowls, square or circular, hollow and containing a lump of bitumen mixed with earth. [drawing] | |
| 17873C | 32-40-62 | (none) | (none) | Model bricks. Miniatures in baked clay of plano-convex bricks. Two have crescent incised on the side some have marks. Some of the bricks are not plano-convex but flat-topped with a long curved frog. L. 50mm, W. 30mm, H. 12mm [unclear what these measurements reference]. Others are not brick-shaped but oval and round on top with long frog. Others are straight on one side and curved on the other and rise on the top with a double curve frog with these are what maybe mixing bowls, square or circular, hollow and containing a lump of bitumen mixed with earth. [drawing] | |
| 17873B | 32-40-61 | (none) | (none) | Model bricks. Miniatures in baked clay of plano-convex bricks. Two have crescent incised on the side some have marks. Some of the bricks are not plano-convex but flat-topped with a long curved frog. L. 50mm, W. 30mm, H. 12mm [unclear what these measurements reference]. Others are not brick-shaped but oval and round on top with long frog. Others are straight on one side and curved on the other and rise on the top with a double curve frog with these are what maybe mixing bowls, square or circular, hollow and containing a lump of bitumen mixed with earth. [drawing] | |
| 17873A | 32-40-60 | (none) | (none) | Model bricks. Miniatures in baked clay of plano-convex bricks. Two have crescent incised on the side some have marks. Some of the bricks are not plano-convex but flat-topped with a long curved frog. L. 50mm, W. 30mm, H. 12mm [unclear what these measurements reference]. Others are not brick-shaped but oval and round on top with long frog. Others are straight on one side and curved on the other and rise on the top with a double curve frog with these are what maybe mixing bowls, square or circular, hollow and containing a lump of bitumen mixed with earth. [drawing] | |
| 18199A | 32-40-47 | (none) | (none) | Clay tables (?) [A-B]. Two: found together. Flat-topped circular three-legged tables with a small hole in the cetner due to a depression underneath. In each case there is underneath a drop of glaze which has fallen on this side and run towards the central hollow. The objects therefore seem to have been used as tripod supports with the 'table-top' downwards as base, which was to be treated with glaze. | |
| 18206 | 32-40-46 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta mould. For a relief. Standing god, in long robes, holding whip, standing on a beast, perhaps a sirrus. Feet and body of animal broken away. | |
| 18086 | 32-40-45 | (none) | (none) | Clay mould. For making figurines. Goddess wearing a flat low headdress. Fragment: only the head and ahoulders left. | |
| 18205 | 32-40-44 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta head of a dog (?). Hand modelled, lively work. |
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