This category includes objects worn on the top of the head, they may be a single band or more intricate.  

Objects: Headdress/Crown Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
12059 31-16-775 (none) (none) Terracotta Figurine. Bottom portion missing. Male figure wearing high mitre-like headress, long pointed beard and flaunced kaukanes skirt. Arms bare & bent at elbow, hands held horizontally against waist. In each hadn a staff with the top ending in a ball which rests against shoulder. Possibly a mace? Bracelet on each wrist. Headdress incised with undulating lines radiating obliquely from top of head. Possibly a woollen cap?
12091 30-12-41 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell. White. Presentation scene before seated deity, inscribed? Very poor condition: no photos possible.
12748 31-16-774 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Fragment = moulded. Male figure, beardless, advancing right : the left hand is across the body and holds a curved weapon like a scimitar : on the head a small cap with broken : long cloak passing over right shoulder. Broken away at the hips. [drawing 1:1]
12782 31-16-772 (none) (none) Terracotta figure. Moulded. Female, hands clasped, full face, seated, wearing horned cap and dress of pleated flounces to feet.
12788 31-16-773 (none) (none) Terracotta figurines. Fragment. Moulded. Female figure, full face, from waist upwards; hands clasped below breasts, fillet round hair, torso nude.
13031 30-12-44 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Greenish. Presentation scene and 1 dwarf-like figure.
13663 31-17-23 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Broken. God and worshipper, crescent and emblem. Fragment of inscription. steatite. HC.1929/30 - 100.
15043 31-17-19 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis lazuli. Presentation. Star in crescent. Inscription dNin-gal-nam-nin-kho-ul dumu lu-dingir-ra N. son of L. scribe. HC.103.
15309 31-17-22 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis. Presentation scene. Poor cutting.
15478 31-17-20 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Standing god, worshipper & rampant lion.
15712 31-16-776 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded deity, tall and slim, peg-shaped below waist, naturalistic above. Wearing long coat covering one arm and leaving the other exposed. On either side two long snakes. Heads level with head of figure.
15725 31-16-865 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Wearing voluminous wig running down to neck represented at sides of head by 5 horizontal bands.
15736 31-16-916 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. God wearing high horned headdress, long beard descending to waist, long curl falling onto each shoulder, and supporting a pair of maces one at each shoulder. Missing below waist.
15748 31-16-837 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female supporting baby at breast. head draped.
15749 31-16-914 (none) (none) Terracotta plaque. 2 figures, full face - in high relief. A bearded male deity and a goddess wearing high horned headdress, earrings? Necklace consisting of 3 strings of beads, and pleated coat which leaves right shoulder exposed. Right arm of goddess rests against left shoulder of god. Fragment: head only of god, goddess missing below waist.
15813 31-17-124, 31-17-124 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed.
16025 31-43-27 (none) (none) Quartzite Cylinder seal. HC../30 UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16104 31-43-54 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Greenish grey steatite. Presentation scene before seated deity. Palm tree.
16146 31-43-29 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink steatite. Presentation scene: seated figure and two standing; emblem: pole with a forked top.
16179 31-43-28 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Green steatite. Presentation scene: enthroned god and two standing figures.
16227 31-43-444 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Bearded man walking rt. & holding a staff on which is a bird(?), legs broken off at knee. [drawing 1:1]
16262 31-43-37 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene with standing god and three other figures.
16290 31-43-422 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Red clay, incomplete. [drawing 1:1]
16300 31-43-380 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Fragment. Legs missing. Draped female figure, the head disproportionately large. [drawing 1:1]
16433A 31-43-449 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Fragment. Plaque, painted red, of a bull-legged demon. He stands left with body in profile and head full face holding a staff with trident head.

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Bandeau

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Horned Headdress

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