Mold Pressed
Technique of creating an object by pressing into a mold
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15748 | 31-16-837 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Female supporting baby at breast. head draped. | |
| 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. | |
| 15753 | (none) | 1935,0113.82 | (none) | Terracotta Head. Female wearing a bandeau, hair represented by fine wavy lines. Missing below neck - long locks of hair flowing onto shoulders. | |
| 15755 | (none) | 1935,0113.83 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Bearded deity. Fragment. Grotesque head, pellet eyes. Long beard flowing onto chest. Circular opening-work pendants round forehead(?) High headdress. Top of head missing. Lower portion of arms missing. | |
| 16109B | (none) | 1931,1010.424 | (none) | Terracotta Relief. Nude woman with hands clasped over breast, hair-in close- set parallel waves. Good modelling. Type III c.z. (A) Fragment broken away at hips: good impression; (B) Fragment broken away at hips good impression; (C) Fragment almost identical but from a slightly larger mould, fragment broken off at waist. | |
| 16223 | 31-43-381 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Upper part only of nude female figure. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16227 | 31-43-444 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Bearded man walking rt. & holding a staff on which is a bird(?), legs broken off at knee. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16233 | (none) | 1931,1010.437 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Nude female figure [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16236 | (none) | 1931,1010.386 | (none) | Terracotta relief, fragment. 2 deities side by side on a throne. Vase & bird in background. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16238 | (none) | 1931,1010.411 | (none) | Terracotta relief, fragment. Upper part of draped female figure with elaborate headress and ornaments. Grotesquely rendered. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16281 | (none) | 1931,1010.397 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Fragmentary. Shamash(?) and 3 minor gods? [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16282B | (none) | 1931,1010.414 | (none) | [A-B] Terracotta. roughly moulded in high relief two replicas from the same mould; in each case only the upper part preserved. Kassite(?). [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16283 | (none) | 1931,1010.416 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Fragment. Lower part of female figure wearing the heavy flounced skirt, seated on, (?) or carrying (?) a large pannier; in this is crouched a monkey. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16290 | 31-43-422 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Red clay, incomplete. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16300 | 31-43-380 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Fragment. Legs missing. Draped female figure, the head disproportionately large. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16344 | (none) | 1931,1010.359 | (none) | Model brick. Light drab baked clay. | |
| 16346 | (none) | 1931,1010.512 | (none) | Terracotta Bed. 4 legs. Criss-cross pattern showing string of bed. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 16429 | (none) | 1931,1010.431 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude female with hands to breasts. Moulded. Poor impression but retaining traces of pink paint on forehead between breasts & in lines of body. | |
| 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. | |
| 16435E | (none) | 1931,1010.420 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Seated goddess. Type VI.A (A) complete, but a worn impression: (B)fragment from waist upwards: (C) fragment from waist downwards; (D) fragment head only(?) Type VI.2; (E) fragment broken off at waist. | |
| 16436C | 31-43-401 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurines. Tambourine player: Type IIIa. A sub-species (1): (A) Fragment preserved from hips upwards: (B) Fragment from waist upwards; (C) fragment from knees up; from a different mould, the head being smaller; (D) fragment rom thighs up: similar to last; (E) fragment from waist up: similar to last, a much worn example; (F) fragment from waist up: sub-species 2; (G) fragment head & feet missing; (H) fragment head & legs missing; (J) fragment broken off at waist, fair impression; (K) fragment broken off at thighs, poor condition (sub-species 1344?) or type III, cf. ; (L) fragment broken away at knees; fair impression; (M) Complete except for feet, but the face damaged & chip off tambourine; (N) Fragment from waist up, poor ; (O) Similar type but from a much smaller mould; broken away at hips; (P) Fragment from waist upwards, good impression; (Q) Fragment from hips upwards, poor and badly encrusted with salt. | |
| 16436F | (none) | 1931,1010.439 | (none) | Terracotta figurines. Tambourine player: Type IIIa. A sub-species (1): (A) Fragment preserved from hips upwards: (B) Fragment from waist upwards; (C) fragment from knees up; from a different mould, the head being smaller; (D) fragment rom thighs up: similar to last; (E) fragment from waist up: similar to last, a much worn example; (F) fragment from waist up: sub-species 2; (G) fragment head & feet missing; (H) fragment head & legs missing; (J) fragment broken off at waist, fair impression; (K) fragment broken off at thighs, poor condition (sub-species 1344?) or type III, cf. ; (L) fragment broken away at knees; fair impression; (M) Complete except for feet, but the face damaged & chip off tambourine; (N) Fragment from waist up, poor ; (O) Similar type but from a much smaller mould; broken away at hips; (P) Fragment from waist upwards, good impression; (Q) Fragment from hips upwards, poor and badly encrusted with salt. | |
| 16436J | 31-43-402 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurines. Tambourine player: Type IIIa. A sub-species (1): (A) Fragment preserved from hips upwards: (B) Fragment from waist upwards; (C) fragment from knees up; from a different mould, the head being smaller; (D) fragment rom thighs up: similar to last; (E) fragment from waist up: similar to last, a much worn example; (F) fragment from waist up: sub-species 2; (G) fragment head & feet missing; (H) fragment head & legs missing; (J) fragment broken off at waist, fair impression; (K) fragment broken off at thighs, poor condition (sub-species 1344?) or type III, cf. ; (L) fragment broken away at knees; fair impression; (M) Complete except for feet, but the face damaged & chip off tambourine; (N) Fragment from waist up, poor ; (O) Similar type but from a much smaller mould; broken away at hips; (P) Fragment from waist upwards, good impression; (Q) Fragment from hips upwards, poor and badly encrusted with salt. | |
| 16436L | 31-43-400 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurines. Tambourine player: Type IIIa. A sub-species (1): (A) Fragment preserved from hips upwards: (B) Fragment from waist upwards; (C) fragment from knees up; from a different mould, the head being smaller; (D) fragment rom thighs up: similar to last; (E) fragment from waist up: similar to last, a much worn example; (F) fragment from waist up: sub-species 2; (G) fragment head & feet missing; (H) fragment head & legs missing; (J) fragment broken off at waist, fair impression; (K) fragment broken off at thighs, poor condition (sub-species 1344?) or type III, cf. ; (L) fragment broken away at knees; fair impression; (M) Complete except for feet, but the face damaged & chip off tambourine; (N) Fragment from waist up, poor ; (O) Similar type but from a much smaller mould; broken away at hips; (P) Fragment from waist upwards, good impression; (Q) Fragment from hips upwards, poor and badly encrusted with salt. | |
| 16436M | (none) | 1931,1010.429 | (none) | Terracotta figurines. Tambourine player: Type IIIa. A sub-species (1): (A) Fragment preserved from hips upwards: (B) Fragment from waist upwards; (C) fragment from knees up; from a different mould, the head being smaller; (D) fragment rom thighs up: similar to last; (E) fragment from waist up: similar to last, a much worn example; (F) fragment from waist up: sub-species 2; (G) fragment head & feet missing; (H) fragment head & legs missing; (J) fragment broken off at waist, fair impression; (K) fragment broken off at thighs, poor condition (sub-species 1344?) or type III, cf. ; (L) fragment broken away at knees; fair impression; (M) Complete except for feet, but the face damaged & chip off tambourine; (N) Fragment from waist up, poor ; (O) Similar type but from a much smaller mould; broken away at hips; (P) Fragment from waist upwards, good impression; (Q) Fragment from hips upwards, poor and badly encrusted with salt. |
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