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)
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.
18339	33-35-168	(none)	(none)	Fragment of statuette. Grey steatite. Part of a male figure wearing the Kaunakes with upper part of body bare: the hands clasped over the breast. Preserved , one half of the body, cut vertically, right side & rt arm, from just below the shoulder to the hip. The figure was deliberately cut in pieces: the saw marks go partly through the figure and then the fragments were broken apart. Fine work of about 3rd Dynasty or a little earlier.
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.
18205	32-40-44	(none)	(none)	Terracotta head of a dog (?). Hand modelled, lively work.
17717	32-40-436	(none)	(none)	Pictograph. Limestone. [drawing 1:1]
17853	32-40-435, 32-40-435	(none)	(none)	Limestone fragment. Flaked off from a curved drum with inscription (nearly completed). --To Amurru; His God; (for) life; Warad-Sin; King of Larsa
18160	32-40-43	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Hand modelled of a humped bison (?): the horns both missing. [drawing]
(none)	32-40-42	(none)	(none)	(none)
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.
18026	32-40-38	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Puzuzu head.
17605	32-40-37	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Moulded.
18108	32-40-36	(none)	(none)	Clay head hand modelled of a negro (?) very fine work, but much damaged. Broken off at base of neck.
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.