Figural Objects

This category includes objects that are made in the shape of humans or animals, either free standing or on plaques.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
313	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Lower part of, From waist down. Draped figure standing front with long fringed skirt, standing on object (?) Arms crossed and hands clearly to breasts.
367	(none)	(none)	B15295	Clay plaque. Fragment. Unbaked. Surface smoothed and bordered with incised straight lines: on surface, lightly incised in the wet clay, a sketch of a bearded human head left with horned (?) headdress. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
401	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Head of a lion seen full-face. [drawing 1:1]
402	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine (top missing) a bed, wheren a female figure in flounced shirt, hands to hearts, headless in seated attitude. [drawing]
407	(none)	(none)	B15000	Terracotta figurine. Snowman technique. Upper part of female figure body board-like bird head. [drawing 1:1]
414	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Broken. Female type. Usual whitish drab clay. [drawing 1:1]
518	(none)	(none)	B15184	Terracotta relief - Complete: greenish pottery. 2 male fig. advancing front. Each has tall feather(?) head-dress, long hair curled over ears, Semitic nose, long beard arranged in 3 rows of short curls and +long straight hair to a point: the right arm by the side, l. across body with in hand the litnus: drapery to knees, crossing legs diagonally. Behind, two legs to make the relief stand upright.
608	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine. Lower part only of flat wide-hipped Astarte figure. [below] Photo 69. [drawing 1:2]
611	(none)	(none)	B15198	Clay figurine of a bear. Forepart only. Reddish clay with creamy drab surface. [drawing]
630	(none)	(none)	(none)	Faience figurine. Fragment of green-glazed frit: Osirid(?) figure. [drawing 1:1]
632	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine fr. of. [drawing 1:1]
644	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine. Snow-man technique. Male figure with long beard + pointed tall cap inclined forwards: arms and + missing. [drawing 1:2]
645	(none)	(none)	B15191	Terracotta figurine (fr. of) moulded. Seated on a chair, a female figure wearing a dress from neck to ankles + with full sleeves. The bodice treated in narrow pleats, the skirt in 5 flounces of close pleating, border of smocking (?) round neck. Hands clasped in front of body, head missing. The chair +drapery make a solid front: behind project two stumps to make the relief stand up. [drawing]
646	(none)	(none)	B14996	Terracotta figurine. moulded. fr. of. Complete from waist upwards, female figure, nude, hands clasped below breasts. 2 broad necklaces, hair waved heavily over ears but above covered with linen(?) headdress forming broad band over brow and bow-like loops behind. unusually fine +detailed work.
651	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine fr. of. Bull, roughly modeled and painted with details in black on greenish-drab clay. [drawing]
656	(none)	(none)	B15196	Terracotta relief of a lion probably only the core, moulded and intended to be covered over with a slip in which the finer detail was rendered. [drawing]
684	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine. Headless: moulded. Figure in long drapery concealing feet, hands clasped on breast. Male? Heavy work, no detail.
687	(none)	(none)	B14997	Terracotta relief. In greenish clay. A kneeling woman (headless) suckling a child.[drawing 1:1]
744	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of dolomite statue. Probably from shoulder. Last four lines of single column inscription of a King of Ur. Length of inscription 50mm
756	(none)	(none)	(none)	Inscribed stone fragment. Portions of signs from bottom line of inscription. Placed in IN/No. 1.
770	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay statuette. Snowman technique. [drawing]
771	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay mask. Fragment of, in whitish clay. [drawing 1:1]
788	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Upper part of female figure, nude, with long curls and hands clasped below breasts. [drawing 1:1]
805	(none)	(none)	(none)	Diorite statue. Of Entemena. Found in burnt layer on Nabonidus pavement before the inner doorway of the Ziggurat gate in the SW temenos wall. Headless. Long inscription on rt. upper arm and across back of shoulders. Wears usual fleece skirt: hands clasped below breasts.
836	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta horse's head. Snowman technique. Fragment of one of the normal horseman figurines.