This techniques is the result of pressing moist clay into a hollow container that has been carved or otherwise indented with the shape or image that is desired to be  produced;. hand cut, incised and hand modelled additions may be made. 

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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)
656 (none) (none) B15196 Terracotta relief of a lion probably only the core, moulded and intended to be covered over with a slip in which the finer detail was rendered. [drawing]
12761 31-16-768 (none) (none) Terracotta relief moulded. Nude female figure holding her breasts. Broken off below the knees. [drawing 1:1]
1008B (none) 1935,0113.88 (none) Terracotta relief ? [A] Female figure, made with hands to breasts bead necklace, against dated, big earrings and very prominent features. lower part of legs missing. but [B] feet preserved separately. Whitish clay
518 (none) (none) B15184 Terracotta relief - Complete: greenish pottery. 2 male fig. advancing front. Each has tall feather(?) head-dress, long hair curled over ears, Semitic nose, long beard arranged in 3 rows of short curls and +long straight hair to a point: the right arm by the side, l. across body with in hand the litnus: drapery to knees, crossing legs diagonally. Behind, two legs to make the relief stand upright.
16987 (none) 1931,1010.513 (none) Terracotta relief (back of chariot). A god with horned crown standing with left foot advanced and left hand outstretched. He wears long dress open in front. In his hand a staff with sun disk above: in front, one with crescent moon. Open work at top of chariot back.
16437A (none) 1931,1010.417 (none) Terracotta relief Tambourine Player Type III B. A) Body broken across diagonally from rt. arm to l. thigh - actual ht. 013 Diqdiqqeh B) Fragment: broken away at waist: poor impression Diqdiqqeh C) Frag: head missing: poor impression ht 012 Diqdiqqeh D) Broken away just below the hands. ht 008 Diqdiqqeh
1010 (none) (none) B15182 Terracotta relief Moulded Upper part of male figure, bearded, wearing Semitic cloak fringed over l. shoulder, & low bonnet: carries a goat against chest. Whitish clay photo 118 Phil ht 009
8555 (none) 1928,1009.463 (none) Terracotta relief Head missing: male figure, bearded, a dancer right: club in right hand: short skirt to knees. Surface poor. [drawing 1:1]
18619 (none) 1933,1013.187 (none) Terracotta releif of bearded male figure, with headdress falling down on each side, holding two objects over his chest, feet broken off.
3056 (none) 1927,1003.159 (none) Terracotta plaque. Showing goddess seated on bull, holding bird in left hand, crescent on pole at back and nude bull-headed man facing her. [drawing 1:1]
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]
7676 (none) 1928,1009.466 (none) Terracotta plaque. Fragment. Top portion missing. 2 maile figures clad in short tunics and standing on either side of entrance to shrine? Each grasps the ribbed door post in one hand. [drawing 1:1]
6758 (none) 1927,0527.236 (none) Terracotta plaque. Fragment. Fighter trampling a fallen warrior. E.
8113 (none) (none) B17212 Terracotta plaque. Bottom half missing. In low relief. Two upright figures heavily draped and wearing conical headdresses stand with hands upraised facing either side of vertical post. Post is broader below than above. It has a narrow neck and a concave top broader than the neck, supporting what may be a crescent moon? Behind each standing figures a mace with a rounded head, fixed vertically in the ground. [drawing 1:1]
15711 (none) 1930,1213.328 (none) Terracotta plaque. Pair of demons, both standing-full face. One a bearded male, the other a female: both wearing flannel kaukanes skirts, the male figure carries a flabellum(?).
15714 31-16-777 (none) (none) Terracotta plaque. Lion in profile. Head missing-curling tail.
15713 31-16-942 (none) (none) Terracotta plaque. Fragment. Lion in profile. Head missing -curling tail.
15718 (none) 1933,1013.215 (none) Terracotta plaque. Fragment, head missing. Goddess in flannel kaukanes skirt holding a long necked vase from which water flows on either side. The vase rests on a low stool. Goddess is seated on a throne behind which is a goose. Bau type.
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.
1217 (none) 1924,0920.99 (none) Terracotta moulded relief of naked goddess, both hands holding breasts: head missing. [drawing]
6939 (none) (none) B16268 Terracotta mould. Fragmentary. Broken at bottom. Seated goddess feat resting on goose and second goose standing at right hand side. Cf. terracotta figurine identical in subject with this mould though not actually produced from it. E.
18565 33-35-64 (none) (none) Terracotta mould. For making a figurine of a nude standing female figure (entirely encrusted with salt)
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.
7064 (none) (none) B16269 Terracotta mould. Enthroned figure - female? Wearing flounced Kaukenes skirt. E.
1229 (none) 1924,0920.375 (none) Terracotta model of a bearded man holding a kid before him. The upper part of head is missing. [drawing] Photo 174

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