This category contains depictions of the upper part of the body that contains the brain.  

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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)
16912 31-43-384 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude female figure, hands apparently by sides. (A) Broken off above waist. [drawing 1:1]
16916 31-43-418 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Goddess or woman. Nude(?) with hands clasped below breast : on background, crescent moons and stars. A) fragment broken away at waist. [drawing 1:1]
16919 31-43-443 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Bearded man standing, full face: right hand to breast, left hand by side: he wears cloak and skirted garment. (poor condition, destroyed by salt.) Fragment, feet missing. [drawing 1:1]
16920 31-43-463 (none) (none) Terracotta. A disk with 2 short legs: on the top of it, the head and arms of a woman with breast in front; hand modeled and very rough. [drawing 1:1]
16931B 31-43-408 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Goddess with horned hat and long tresses, draped, hands raised with fingers meeting at neck. (A) Fragment broken off at breast. (B) Fragment broken off at waist. (Type IV, b.1.)
16936 31-43-395 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Draped female figure, standing, with hands to breasts: elaborate coiffure but no head ornaments. (A) complete and in good condition. [drawing 1:1]
16939A 31-43-386 (none) (none) Terracotta relief of nude female with hands below breasts. (A) Complete. (B) Broken but complete except for feet; (C) Broken away at knees, poor cast. (D) Broken away at knees, poor cast; (E) Complete, the legs cut apart after moulding (F) Complete; (G) Mould taken only to navel and the cast then rounded off (probably same mould poor); (H) Complete (as above). All the above are of very lightly fired clay, red or yellowish grey, and form a group distinct from nearly all the other terracottas. They might be modern casts from an ancient mould. Type III c.Y
16941B 31-43-428 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude female figure, the right arm raised above head. (A) Fragment broken away below breasts; (B) Complete except for feet, but much encrusted with salt. (C) Complete, but most of the body flaked away. Different mould. (Type III, c. GG)
16942 31-43-397 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Draped female figure standing with hands clasped below breasts plain chiton. (A) Broken away above ankles; poor cast and face all gone. [drawing]
16953B 31-43-389 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude female figure with hands clasped below breasts: lines of dots on background. A) complete, but in bad condition and hidden by salt.
16964 31-43-403 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude female with hands to breasts. Grotesque. (A) broken away at thighs. [drawing 1:1]
16965 31-43-421 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Horned goddess, draped standing between two geese; streams of water; fish, suns and stars in background. (A) complete and good impression. [drawing 1:1]
16969A 31-43-409 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Draped female figure (grotesque face) Type III, e.2 (or variant of this type?) (A) Broken away at waist.
16974 31-43-657 (none) (none) Terracotta relief of a woman, draped, advancing left with rt arm extended. (A) fragment: right hand and all figure below hips missing. Type XIII.5
16978A 31-43-420 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Draped female figure with right hand raised. (A) fragment, broken off at waist. [drawing 1:1] (B) fragment broken off at waist.
16982 31-43-391 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude woman with hands clasped below breasts. Upper part of head and legs below knees missing. Type? possibly III C.X.
16990 31-43-450 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude male figure with horned headdress and belt, bearded, full face; with hands raised to breast holding a fly-whisk(?) and a bird. Complete except for feet; and a very good impression. [drawing]
16992 31-43-385 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude female figure with hands clasped below breasts. Red clay : good modelling, broken away above knees. Photo _
17015 31-43-52 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 figures before a standing goddess. Goose
17075 31-43-490 (none) (none) Papskukal. Mud figure, bearded male wearing a conical cap and girt with a balrick to which is attached a sword hanging from the left side. The right hand, raised and clasped a spear. Baldric mu weapons in copper traces of red paint on the mud. See sketch. Field note in AD.
17100 31-43-67 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Black. Conoid. Bearded male figure holding an offering before a throne (?) or altar with a high back in which is planted a spear. Emblems. Fish and crescent moon. [drawing]
17131 31-43-426 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Goddess seated on an animal: in front of her a grotesque male (?) figure: between them, they hold a staff surmounted by a bird. Very crude work. (A) Complete except for head of second figure. Poor impression. [drawing 1:1]
17142A 31-43-413 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Draped female figure with hands clasped below breasts. (A) poor impression. Complete. [drawing 1:1]
17145 31-43-394 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude female with hands supporting breasts. (A) Complete, good impression. Type III c. CC.
17151 31-43-456 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Two deities, a god and goddess, facing each other. Both wear the long dress with pleated flounces. (A) Complete except for feet. [drawing 1:1]

Related Terms

Pubic Triangle

Child Terms

Bearded - Bird headed human - Hair

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