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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 216 | (none) | 1923,1110.102 | (none) | Terracotta relief. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 18611 | (none) | 1933,1013.183 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Woman squatting holding a baby to her left breast, she wears headdress of ribbed material. | |
| 1008A | (none) | 1923,1110.100 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Whitish clay. Moulded, female figure, nude with hands to breasts bead necklace, organs dotted, big earrings and very prominent features. Lower part of leg missing but feet preserved separately. | |
| 688 | (none) | 1923,1110.109 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Upper part only, moulded. Grotesque female figure with elaborate headdress. Hands clasped below breasts. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16223 | 31-43-381 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Upper part only of nude female figure. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17124 | (none) | 1931,1010.451 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Two seated goddesses (?) or women, one large and holding a pot to her breast: she wears a large garment with pleasted flounces and is bare-headed: the other beside her is similar but much small. (A) Complete but much worn. (B) [No description] Type Ib.D. | |
| 17151 | 31-43-456 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Two deities, a god and goddess, facing each other. Both wear the long dress with pleated flounces. (A) Complete except for feet. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17134A | (none) | 1931,1010.432 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Two bull-legged demons facing each other and holding upright staffs like palm logs. (A) Fragment = head missing. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 18027A | (none) | 1932,1008.242 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Triad of gods, seated full face. On the sides - goddess and a god in long pleated garments, in the middle a small nude female figure holding her breasts. (A) Complete. (B) Complete: exactly similar but from a smaller mould (or shrunk). | |
| 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. | |
| 18057 | (none) | 1932,1008.236 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Seated goddess on throne, full face, hands clasped. She wears a flat head-dress and long flounced robe. Complete (entirely covered with salt). | |
| 16494A | (none) | 1931,1010.433 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Seated female figure draped, with hand to breast. Head very large and grotesque. Lightly baked red clay. [drawing 1:1] (A) complete, weak and flat impression. (B) Complete, week and flat impression, it is repeated on the back of the clay from the same mould. (C) Head missing, poor, on reverse a very faint impression from the same mould; (D) Complete, poor, narrow frame; (E) Complete, poor, narrow frame. | |
| 16494C | 31-43-419 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Seated female figure draped, with hand to breast. Head very large and grotesque. Lightly baked red clay. [drawing 1:1] (A) Complete, weak and flat impression. (B) Complete, week and flat impression, it is repeated on the back of the clay from the same mould. (C) Head missing, poor, on reverse a very faint impression from the same mould; (D) Complete, poor, narrow frame; (E) Complete, poor, narrow frame. | |
| 1013 | (none) | (none) | B15188 | Terracotta relief. Red clay. Moulded. Replica (from same mould) as U.1012, but broken off a little bit below the waist. | |
| 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. | |
| 1012 | (none) | 1923,1110.99 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Red clay. Moulded, in a rectangular frame (shrine?) a female figure wearing turreted headdress, heavy cloak with big rosettes on shoulders, flounced skirt. In each hand a bottle (?): 4 large rosettes in field above shoulders. Features pinched and not recognizable. Broken off at knees. | |
| 16290 | 31-43-422 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Red clay, incomplete. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 18026 | 32-40-38 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Puzuzu head. | |
| 18495 | (none) | 1933,1013.203 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Puzuzu head (complete) | |
| 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. | |
| 18610 | 33-35-22 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Of naked female figure: hands clasped below the breast, hair dressed in curls over the ears and necklace round the neck. Broken about the knees. | |
| 18613 | 33-35-24 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Of bearded male figure wearing a high headdress, with ornament falling down from it to below the shoulders on each side. Curls of hair on each side of the face, hands clasped, and wearing some kind of close-fitting dress. Broken below the waist. | |
| 18620 | 33-35-58 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Of a lion, passing to the right with mouth open, tail over back. | |
| 16982 | 31-43-391 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Nude woman with hands clasped below breasts. Upper part of head and legs below knees missing. Type? possibly III C.X. | |
| 16498C | 31-43-405 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Nude woman suckling an infant. Good modelling, high relief. [drawing 1:1] (A) Broken away from waist (as drawn) (B) Broken away at hips and face smashed; from a similar but slightly smaller mould; (C) Head and legs below knees missing: perhaps from a different mould but very similar. (D) Head and feet missing; poor impression, not from the same mould as last, but perhaps identical with (A); (E) Missing from waist downward: (smaller mould); (F) Fragment broken away at hips, poor specimen; (G) Fragment head and legs below knees missing; (H) Complete, good impression, probably from different mould. |
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