This category contains depictions of a human or god holding a weapon, usually a knife, club, spear, or arrow/bow.  Usually male.  

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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)
12023 30-12-26 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Steatite. Men fighting.
1784 (none) (none) B15637 Figurine. Drab clay. Male, bearded and mitred bearing maces. Head and torso only. [drawing 1:1]
591 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of clay with two seal impressions. The upper shows a kneeling figure striking a standing opponent, behind another kneeling figure with a bow and a standing figure in the background. The impression below has the head and headdress of one figure and the headdress of another, ordinary Sumerian type.
11598A 30-12-35 (none) (none) Group. [A](1) Cylinder Seal, lapis, man, lion & gazelle]. [B](2) Copper Axe Type XVII. [C](3) A few beads of lapis and copper.
16021 31-43-25, 31-43-25 (none) (none) Steatite Cylinder seal. Nana son of Gudea,the jeweller. HC.30/I.7. UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
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]
16478A 31-43-453 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Bearded and horned god carrying mace and axe: Type VII, 3. (A) From waist upwards only. (B) From crossed hands upwards: (C) Head missing above mouth, body complete.
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.
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]
1011 (none) (none) B15185 Terracotta relief. Moulded. Whitish clay. Male figure, bearded, with horned cap and vertically pleated skirt, showing left knee, cloak over shoulders: bull's ears. Left hand against body, right carries object like axe. Broken at knees.
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]
1762 (none) (none) B15650 Terracotta relief. Red clay. Moulded. Bearded figure, full face. On head, high horned cap (chipped), long curls on shoulder, bull's ears: dress presumably sheepskin queerly treated with lobes in relief: right hand holds mace to shoulder left hand apparently an axe of this type. Broken at waist.
6233 (none) (none) B16258 Triumphant warrior wearing loin cloth and wielding curved club in right hand treads on defeated enemy with left foot and holds shield and spears in his left hand. Head bearded. E. [drawing 1:1]
(none) (none) (none) B15273 Unknown
(none) 31-16-917 (none) (none) Unknown
12004A 30-12-36 (none) (none) [A] Cylinder Seal Black Steatite with this a [B] copper pin, plain tang head. Type II.
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