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)
1613 (none) 1924,0920.78 (none) Figurine. Drab clay; moulded. Figure with skirt to knees, legs in profile, carrying axe (?) over right shoulder; head missing.
1624 (none) 1924,0920.80 (none) Clay figurine. Drab clay; modeled. Seated figure, with necklace.
1630 (none) 1924,0920.382 (none) Relief. On the back of a broken chair. Drab clay; moulded. 2 figures (nude) with high headdresses, standing side beside. Round them birds.
1652 31-16-923 (none) (none) Clay figurine. Drab clay; moulded. Bearded figure with horned headdress and pleated skirt, holding emblems; weathered.
1654 31-16-926 (none) (none) Figurine. Fragment, from shoulder to knees only. Red drab clay; moulded. Figure in profile; much weathered.
1722 (none) 1924,0920.63 (none) Figurine. Drab clay; moulded. Female figure, clothed, with high headdress and flounced skirt.
1725 (none) 1924,0920.107 (none) Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only: drab clay; moulded; nude female figure.
1726 (none) 1924,0920.101 (none) Relief. Fragment from back of chair; drab clay; moulded. 2 female(?) figures facing each other with 2 birds on poles and tripod (?) between them.
1742 (none) 1924,0920.64 (none) Terracotta relief. Green clay. Female figure, full face, standing with hands raised to breast. Triple feather crown, bead (?) girdle. By the side of the figure traces of rope-pattern, possibly edge of a veil (or shrine) behind the goddess.
1746 (none) 1924,0920.114 (none) Terracotta relief. Fragment. Upper part of female figure, full face: curious double headdress: hair elaborately ringed: cloak over shoulders bbelow bead collar meeting above breasts, rosette on left shoulder: hands clasped below breasts.
1753 (none) 1924,0920.95 (none) Relief disk. Moulded in greenish-white clay. A grotesque face. The eyes are pierced and so are 2 holes near the place for the ears, as it is for suspension: the disk face is conves, and hollow behind.
1755 (none) 1924,0920.68 (none) Figure. Moulded. Reddish clay. On a chair or throne, (broken) upright female (?) figure, full face. Hands on breasts, body apparently draped: on head, a mural (?) crown: heavy curls over shoulders.
1756 (none) 1924,0920.75 (none) Relief. Moulded clay. Grotesque male figure, full face: Bes-like head, right arm raised, left to breast, body nude, large genital organs, bowl legs. Feet together.
1757 (none) 1924,0920.69 (none) Relief. Light red clay. Moulded. Female figure seated figure right: intact from same mould as U.1375.
1758 (none) 1924,0920.84 (none) Relief. Light drab clay. Moulded. Female(?) figure seated left; long robe to feet; hgih horned (?) headdress; from the shoulders rise rays or wings represented by 3 strokes.
1759 (none) 1924,0920.67 (none) Figurine. Light red clay. Moulded. Nude female figure seated, full face, wears full-bottomed wig and bead-collar: with both hands holds infant to left breast. Roughly modeled in relief: two legs behind enable relief to stand up.
1767 (none) 1924,0920.376 (none) Figurine. Drab clay. Female, nude, upright, feet broken. [drawing 1:1]
1768 (none) 1924,0920.373 (none) Figurine. Red clay. Female, robed, arms raised, feet, broken, worn. [drawing 1:1]
1769 (none) 1924,0920.378 (none) Figurine. Red clay. Head and shoulders only. [drawing 1:1]
1770 (none) 1924,0920.380 (none) Figurine. Red clay. Female, head and trunk only, holding tamborine. [drawing 1:1]
1771 (none) 1924,0920.370 (none) Figurine. Drab clay. Female with headdress and flounced skirt. [drawing 1:1]
1772 (none) 1924,0920.377 (none) Figurine. Drab clay, female, nude,. Head, trunk and thighs only. [drawing 1:1]
1773 (none) 1924,0920.372 (none) Figurine. Drab clay, robed and bearded: head and trunk only. [drawing 1:1]
1774 (none) 1924,0920.381 (none) Figurine. Drab clay. Head only, tiered headdress. [drawing 1:1]
1775 (none) 1924,0920.371 (none) Figurine. Drab clay. Male, head and torso only. Bearded and mitred. [drawing 1:1]

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