This category contains depictions of a human/god holding an indistinguishable object.  

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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)
16612 31-43-53 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Presentation scene. 3 standing deities. Crescent moon and Palm.
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
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]
16747 31-43-75 (none) (none) Flat seal. Greenish grey steatite. Circular. Upper side convex and decorated with 4 circles, and 3 parallel incisions. Under side a man with a bowl resting against back of neck over shoulders balanced by each arm-suspended from it are 3 water skins, and to one side of the man a stool(?). Pair of stars. [drawing] obv. for rev. see photo.
18021 32-40-14 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Relief of demon facing left and holding sticks (?) by head with grotesque features, very small body. Fragment, from waist upwards.
18138 32-40-19 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure standing in long plain dress with broad girdle, both hands holding an object to her breast. Complete.
18003A 32-40-28 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded man with kilt advancing right. Head full face. (A) Complete. (B) Upper part to waist only. (C) Upper part to waist only.
18087 32-40-30 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Hand modelled, snowman technique. Nude female figure standing full face. Fragment, the legs missing. The hands clasped upon breast.
18040A 32-40-31 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude girl standing full face, left hand to breast, right raised to shoulder level. (the body has an almost Praxitelian curve!). (A) Complete, except for the lower leg. (B) Fragment from the waist upwards. (C) Fragment, from the hips upwards.
17605 32-40-37 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Moulded.
18206 32-40-46 (none) (none) Terracotta mould. For a relief. Standing god, in long robes, holding whip, standing on a beast, perhaps a sirrus. Feet and body of animal broken away.
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.
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.
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.
18405 33-35-344 (none) (none) Clay jar sealing, fragment of. With elaborate design including human figures.
13506 33-35-44 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded male figure carrying a monkey on his shoulders. Monkey, head and arms of man in profile, torso of man full face. Arms bent at elbow, forearm parallel with ground. In his left hand the man holds a rope which is attached to the monkey's neck. Figure missing below waist but probably the man was leading a second monkey. Example is of importance chronologically for it was found in the Larsa filling and against the inner face of the SE wall of the Nebuchadnezzar Temenos. The rubbish stratum is well dated to the _Larsa_ Period. It seems therefore that this figure is also represented on the Asshur-Nasir-Pal reliefs was already in the Assyrian period a cult object of a considerable antiquity and was not simply (as formerly supposed) a man leading in tribute to the king. Common type.
18565 33-35-64 (none) (none) Terracotta mould. For making a figurine of a nude standing female figure (entirely encrusted with salt)
7111 47-29-159 (none) B16266 Terracotta plaque. Fragmentary. Bearded god? Seated on a bull left arm bent at elbow and holding an object right hand held against breast. E. [drawing 1:1]
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