Hair
Depiction of the covering of the top of the head.
This category contains depictions of the covering on top of the head, organic and natural. Usually depicted as curly, but can also be up or down. Male hair is usually shoulder length and left down.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7539 | (none) | (none) | B17206 | Terracotta figurine. Enthroned goddess wearing flounced kaunakes dress, high horned headdress, hair hangs below shoulders and ends in a curl. Both hands clasped over waist. High horned headdress rising in tiers. Throne has a straight back to it.. Behind the seat at an angle of 45 degrees to it are two fragmentary legs protruding well behind the plaque os that the plaque could have originally stood vertically, supported by its props on the table. On either side of the headdress horns and from either side of the top cow's ears. [drawing 1:3] | |
| 18066A | 31-43-398 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Female figure standing full face, hands clasped, pleated and flounced dress, hair elaborately waved. (A) Fragment from middle thighs upwards. (B) Complete (poor example). | |
| 18063 | 32-40-23 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Female figure, nude, standing full face and holding a tambourine before the breasts. Fragment from waist upwards. | |
| 18188 | 32-40-16 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Fragment: head only. Bearded man. Very crude work. | |
| 7570 | (none) | (none) | B17209 | Terracotta figurine. Grotesque. Missing below waist. Bearded male figure wearing fringed turbine wound round head in tiers? and supporting vertically against the body two ceremonial litni which rest on either shoulder, curved tops reaching top of head. 2 incisions around each litnus at the top in the straight portion. Nose thick and shapeless. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16461 | 31-43-435 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta Figurine. Moulded and then partly hand-modeled. Bearded and horned god. [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. | |
| 7107 | (none) | (none) | B16255 | Terracotta Figurine. Naked female, hands clasped against waist. Common type. [drawing 1:1] E | |
| 17820 | 32-40-29 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude female standing and holding an infant to her breast (heavy hair dressed in Eyptian fashion). The feet missing. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 18052 | 32-40-12 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude female standing full face, hands clasped. Hair elaborately dressed, big earrings and necklaces. Complete from knees upwards. | |
| 18051 | 32-40-20 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude female standing full face, hands clasped. Head unduly large, body thick and heavy: hair dressed in Egyptian style. Complete from knees upwards. | |
| 18054 | 32-40-17 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude female standing full face, hands clasped. Slender type. Complete. | |
| 6692 | (none) | (none) | B16254 | Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Fragmentary, lost below knees. Common type. Hands clasped over breast in attitude of prayer. E. [drawing 1:1] | |
 | 7687 | (none) | (none) | B17210 | Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Hands clasped below breast. Missing below knees. Hair represented by fine parallel raised bands and flowing down at side onto shoulders. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2978 | 31-16-785 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude votaress with clasped hands. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 7076B | (none) | (none) | B16267 | Terracotta figurine. Seated goddess in Kaunakes skirt, and holding a vase from which water pours on either side, against the breast. Long flowing hair falling down breast and done up in a knot over either ear. High horned headdress on either side of head a crescent moon. Behind throne a peacock, tail of which shows behind right hand side of the goddess and head behind left hand side. E. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 18046C | 32-40-26 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Woman, nude, standing full face, with tambourine : over the shoulders a spotted cloak. Coarse type. (A) Fragment from navel upwards. (B) Fragment from thighs upwards. Different mould and flatter relief: no cloak. (C) Fragment from thighs upwards: similar to (A). (D) Fragment from waist upwards: similar to (C). (E) Fragment from belly to knees. (F) Fragment: head only. (G) Fragment: from waist upwards and a smaller mould. | |
| 16450A | 31-43-454 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta Figurines. Bearded god. Type VII,4. (A) Fragment broken off at waist; (B) Fragment broken off at waist; (C) Terracotta Relief. Bearded god. Broken off at hips: very good impression. [drawing 1:1] (D) Fragment broken away below hands, similar figure, but from a smaller mould. | |
| 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. | |
| 16455B | 31-43-445 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurines. Man with monkeys. (A) Fragment broken off at waist, rubbed; (B) Fragment broken off at waist, good impression; (C) Fragment only from the waist downwards preserved; (D) Fragment upper part from above knees, poor rubbed impression. | |
| 16445K | 31-43-406 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta Figurines. Mother & child: Type V.3, (A) Head missing, poor condition, complete; (B) From larger mould, but same type, head missing, complete; (C) from larger mould, but same type, head missing; (D) Complete; (E) Complete; (F) Head missing, poor cast; (G) Complete, bad impression; (H) Head missing; (J) Complete; (K)Complete (different mould) (L) Complete (same as mould K); (M) Fragment head and base missing; (N) Probably similar, but from larger mould, only upper part to arm preserved. (O) complete, poor impression; (P) Head missing; (Q) Head missing; (R) Complete; (S) Complete; (T) Complete. | |
| 16453A | 31-43-375 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta Figurines. Nude female: Type III, C.H. (A) Fragment broken away at the waist; (B) Fragment broken away at hips. | |
| 16444D | 31-43-412 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta Figurines. Seated Goddess: Type VI,3.. (A) Head only; (B) Head only; (C) Head only: incomplete. (D) Fragment broken off just above the waist, face damaged. |
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Chignon - Curls - Flowing Hair