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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6750 | (none) | 1927,0527.225 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary. Head missing. Seated god. Full face above waist, in profile below. Right arm bent at elbow, piece of cloth? Hangs down over bare forearm, right hand holds crescent shaped object and a bag against the breast. Left arm bent at elbow and held away from the body. Left hand held upright, fingers missing. Figure is draped in a kaukanes skirt falling in 5 tiers of flounces. Arms bare, flowing beard falls down to chest. The feet of the figure, long and tapering to a point very distinctly arched, rest on paving. Throne on which figure is resting has two legs and a support in the middle. Low curved back to chair. E. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 6758 | (none) | 1927,0527.236 | (none) | Terracotta plaque. Fragment. Fighter trampling a fallen warrior. E. | |
| 6774 | (none) | (none) | B16273 | PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. Traces of white plaster remain. Bearded male, hands clasped over breast. | |
| 6837 | (none) | 1927,0527.228 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude female hands clasped below breast. Common type. E. | |
| 6869 | (none) | 1927,0527.242 | (none) | Terracotta chair? Fragment. Decorated with dogs and crescent moons. E. | |
| 6895 | (none) | 1927,0527.230 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Bearded male figure in profile wearing close fitting cap and long flowing garment, left hand held over waist and supporting a whip? The handle of which runs over left shoulder, cord falling down by left side. Right arm bent at elbow and held slightly upraised. Arms apparently bare, beard flowing down to waist, and hair apparently done up in a knot at back of head. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 6915 | (none) | (none) | B16256 | Terracotta statuette. Female: full face, dressed in close fitting skirt and holding a high-necked vase against waist in left hand, Right arm bent at elbow and slightly upraised. Skirt which is close fitting is embroidered at the bottom and tasseled down right side. Short sleeves reaching elbows only. Female wears necklace, short hair done up in clusters at sides. E. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 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. | |
| 7001 | (none) | (none) | B16262 | Terracotta figurine. Bearded male supporting ram against beard fragmentary below waist. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 7060 | (none) | 1927,0527.233 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Bearded male in profile holding axe in left hand. Close fitting cap on head. Feet lost. E. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 7061 | (none) | 1927,0527.239 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Part of sheep? In profile, head and forelegs missing. Larsa period. E. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 7062 | (none) | (none) | B16259 | Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary. Heads missing. 2 nude wrestlers, males, arms locked round waists, right foot of one figure crosses left foot of the other. E [drawing 1:1] | |
| 7064 | (none) | (none) | B16269 | Terracotta mould. Enthroned figure - female? Wearing flounced Kaukenes skirt. E. | |
| 7071 | (none) | 1927,0527.226 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Female in Kaunakees dress, right shoulder exposed holding suckling child against breast. Feet of female lost. E. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 7074 | (none) | 1927,0527.232 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Bearded male holding lamb to breast. Fragmentary below waist. E. | |
| 7076B | (none) | (none) | B16267 | Terracotta figurine. Seated goddess in Kaunakes skirt, and holding a vase from which water pours on either side, against the breast. Long flowing hair falling down breast and done up in a knot over either ear. High horned headdress on either side of head a crescent moon. Behind throne a peacock, tail of which shows behind right hand side of the goddess and head behind left hand side. E. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 7107 | (none) | (none) | B16255 | Terracotta Figurine. Naked female, hands clasped against waist. Common type. [drawing 1:1] E | |
| 7539 | (none) | (none) | B17206 | Terracotta figurine. Enthroned goddess wearing flounced kaunakes dress, high horned headdress, hair hangs below shoulders and ends in a curl. Both hands clasped over waist. High horned headdress rising in tiers. Throne has a straight back to it.. Behind the seat at an angle of 45 degrees to it are two fragmentary legs protruding well behind the plaque os that the plaque could have originally stood vertically, supported by its props on the table. On either side of the headdress horns and from either side of the top cow's ears. [drawing 1:3] | |
| 7550 | (none) | 1928,1009.467 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude god. Missing below knees. Bearded, wearing horned headdress and supporting against the breast in the right hand a short curved club and in the left a bird?? [drawing 1:1] | |
| 7570 | (none) | (none) | B17209 | Terracotta figurine. Grotesque. Missing below waist. Bearded male figure wearing fringed turbine wound round head in tiers? and supporting vertically against the body two ceremonial litni which rest on either shoulder, curved tops reaching top of head. 2 incisions around each litnus at the top in the straight portion. Nose thick and shapeless. [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] | |
 | 7687 | (none) | (none) | B17210 | Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Hands clasped below breast. Missing below knees. Hair represented by fine parallel raised bands and flowing down at side onto shoulders. [drawing 1:1] |
| 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] | |
| 8473 | (none) | 1928,1009.471 | (none) | Terracotta head of female Upper right-hand side of head missing Hair falls down side of head in long tresses Pronounced chin, straight nose and slight ridge in middle of forehead Hellenistic style? [drawing] 1:1 sketch | |
| 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] |
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