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)
15725 31-16-865 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Wearing voluminous wig running down to neck represented at sides of head by 5 horizontal bands.
15724 31-16-864 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Missing below waist. Wearing wig, large lunate earrings, 4 strings of beads(?) Very poor workmanship.
15721 31-16-920 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Lower half of warrior. Clad in short coat cut so as to reach top of leg in front and claves at the back. Long ill-proportioned feet with toes running to a point-perhaps a shoe? See 1574
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.
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.
15712 31-16-776 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded deity, tall and slim, peg-shaped below waist, naturalistic above. Wearing long coat covering one arm and leaving the other exposed. On either side two long snakes. Heads level with head of figure.
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(?).
1571 33-35-29 (none) (none) Clay figurine fragment of, head and shoulders; drab clay; moulded. Bearded figure with turban-like headdress, holding animal to his breast, the head of which only remains. Height c. M. 0.066
1569 (none) 1924,0920.106 (none) Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only. Drab clay: moulded. Bearded figure with low horned headdress.
1566 (none) (none) B15651 Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only. Drab clay: moulded. Female(?) figure with headdress and garment on left shoulder, the right arm raised. P.
1553 (none) (none) B15663 Figurine. Drab clay: moulded. Female figure, nude, with 4-strand necklace; feet broken off. P.
1552 (none) 1924,0920.60 (none) Figurine. Green clay: moulded. Bearded figure in long robe, with low headdress and collar.
1537 (none) (none) B15667 Figurine. Drab clay: moulded. Female figure holding circular object like U.1374. P.
1536 (none) 1924,0920.91 (none) Figurine. Fragment, below waist downwards only: light drab clay; moulded. Male figure striding right, wearing loin cloth gathered between legs; right arm hanging at side.
1535 (none) (none) B15692 Clay Head. Red drab clay: modeled, wearing low cap, the eyes separately attached. P.
15322 (none) 1935,0113.62 (none) Clay relief. Fragment. A female head found in the filling of the shaft, low down (circ. 500 below wall top) it must be contemporary with the graves: it therefore dates these terracottas as early as the Sargonid period.
1532 31-16-880 (none) (none) Figurine. Fragment. Waist upwards only. Yellow clay: moulded. Female figure, with necklace, weathered. P. 31-16.880
1531 (none) (none) B15655 Figurine. Fragment., below waist upwards only: drab clay: moulded. Female figure, same type as U.1530. P.
1530 (none) 1924,0920.97 (none) Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only only. Red drab, clay: moulded. Female figure, clothed with conical headdress, bracelets and necklace.
1529 (none) (none) B15679 Figurine. Drab clay: moulded. Female figure with necklace, partly clothed, with flat headdress. Legs broken. P.
1528 (none) (none) B15654 Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only. Red clay, yellow surface: moulded. Figure in horned headdress. P.
1527 (none) (none) B15689 Clay Figurine. Fragment of, head and shoulders only, drab clay: moulded. Bearded figure in high horned headdress. P.
151 (none) 1923,1110.105 (none) Clay figurine. Moulded in relief. Ordinary Ishtar type: head missing. [drawing 1:1]
1458 31-16-789 (none) (none) Relief fragment. Clay. Lower part showing the waist and legs of a naked woman. The base is rounded out to form a stand.

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