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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12782 | 31-16-772 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figure. Moulded. Female, hands clasped, full face, seated, wearing horned cap and dress of pleated flounces to feet. | |
| 12786 | 31-16-850 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Fragment of moulded female figure, nude, with hands clasped below breasts : full face broken off at waist. | |
| 12788 | 31-16-773 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurines. Fragment. Moulded. Female figure, full face, from waist upwards; hands clasped below breasts, fillet round hair, torso nude. | |
| 13506 | 33-35-44 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Bearded male figure carrying a monkey on his shoulders. Monkey, head and arms of man in profile, torso of man full face. Arms bent at elbow, forearm parallel with ground. In his left hand the man holds a rope which is attached to the monkey's neck. Figure missing below waist but probably the man was leading a second monkey. Example is of importance chronologically for it was found in the Larsa filling and against the inner face of the SE wall of the Nebuchadnezzar Temenos. The rubbish stratum is well dated to the _Larsa_ Period. It seems therefore that this figure is also represented on the Asshur-Nasir-Pal reliefs was already in the Assyrian period a cult object of a considerable antiquity and was not simply (as formerly supposed) a man leading in tribute to the king. Common type. | |
| 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. | |
| 15713 | 31-16-942 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta plaque. Fragment. Lion in profile. Head missing -curling tail. | |
| 15714 | 31-16-777 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta plaque. Lion in profile. Head missing-curling tail. | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| 15725 | 31-16-865 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Wearing voluminous wig running down to neck represented at sides of head by 5 horizontal bands. | |
| 15736 | 31-16-916 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. God wearing high horned headdress, long beard descending to waist, long curl falling onto each shoulder, and supporting a pair of maces one at each shoulder. Missing below waist. | |
| 15747 | 31-16-843 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude female wearing wig. Hands clasped below breast. Two large strings of beads round neck. | |
| 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. | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 16438C | 31-43-388 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta Figurines: Female figure, nude, Type III, c.x. (as 1); (A) Fragment from hips up; (B) Complete, standing on base, much damaged by salt; (C) Fragment head and feet missing.; (D) Fragment head missing; (E) Fragment head and legs below knees missing; (F) Fragment from hands upwards (1371); (G)Broken away above ankles: most resembles No. 3 (1371) (H) complete down to knees (no more moulded than this); (J) Damaged & missing below hands, face rubbed, poor; (K) Complete: fair condition. (L) Fragment: the left arm and the body below the hands missing. (M) Complete, from miniature mould, poor impression. | |
| 16438K | 31-43-390 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta Figurines: Female figure, nude, Type III, c.x. (as 1); (A) Fragment from hips up; (B) Complete, standing on base, much damaged by salt; (C) Fragment head and feet missing.; (D) Fragment head missing; (E) Fragment head and legs below knees missing; (F) Fragment from hands upwards (1371); (G)Broken away above ankles: most resembles No. 3 (1371) (H) complete down to knees (no more moulded than this); (J) Damaged & missing below hands, face rubbed, poor; (K) Complete: fair condition. (L) Fragment: the left arm and the body below the hands missing. (M) Complete, from miniature mould, poor impression. | |
| 16438L | 31-43-392 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta Figurines: Female figure, nude, Type III, c.x. (as 1); (A) Fragment from hips up; (B) Complete, standing on base, much damaged by salt; (C) Fragment head and feet missing.; (D) Fragment head missing; (E) Fragment head and legs below knees missing; (F) Fragment from hands upwards (1371); (G)Broken away above ankles: most resembles No. 3 (1371) (H) complete down to knees (no more moulded than this); (J) Damaged & missing below hands, face rubbed, poor; (K) Complete: fair condition. (L) Fragment: the left arm and the body below the hands missing. (M) Complete, from miniature mould, poor impression. |
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