This group of techniques contains terms that are used in the creation of objects.  

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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)
18063 32-40-23 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure, nude, standing full face and holding a tambourine before the breasts. Fragment from waist upwards.
18066A 31-43-398 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure standing full face, hands clasped, pleated and flounced dress, hair elaborately waved. (A) Fragment from middle thighs upwards. (B) Complete (poor example).
18085 32-40-21 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. (fragment) Al Obaid type. Reptilian head projecting forward; broad, flat shoulders, the arms (missing) widened like wings: female breasts and slender waist. The eyes are strongly aslant. The top of the head rises in a peak. Broken away at waist.
18086 32-40-45 (none) (none) Clay mould. For making figurines. Goddess wearing a flat low headdress. Fragment: only the head and ahoulders left.
18087 32-40-30 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Hand modelled, snowman technique. Nude female figure standing full face. Fragment, the legs missing. The hands clasped upon breast.
18090 32-40-13 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Female figure facing right, in profile: both hands raised. Flat crown on head: straight flounced garment. Fragment: part of head and body below hips missing.
18096 32-40-25 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Primitive. Hand modelled: man standing, right arm broken. [drawing]
18108 32-40-36 (none) (none) Clay head hand modelled of a negro (?) very fine work, but much damaged. Broken off at base of neck.
18132 32-40-40 (none) (none) Figurine. Of unbaked clay. Nude female and upper part only preserved and the arms missing. Pointed white: the hair black.
18138 32-40-19 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female figure standing in long plain dress with broad girdle, both hands holding an object to her breast. Complete.
18160 32-40-43 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Hand modelled of a humped bison (?): the horns both missing. [drawing]
18188 32-40-16 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment: head only. Bearded man. Very crude work.
18205 32-40-44 (none) (none) Terracotta head of a dog (?). Hand modelled, lively work.
18206 32-40-46 (none) (none) Terracotta mould. For a relief. Standing god, in long robes, holding whip, standing on a beast, perhaps a sirrus. Feet and body of animal broken away.
18211A 33-35-11 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine moulded in the round coarse late work and a very flaccid impression. (A) Broken in half. (B) Intact.
18215 33-35-12 (none) (none) Terracotta relief, back of bedstead with two birds facing each other: below, crosses in circles (fragmentary)
18237 33-35-13 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment of male figure, archaic type. [drawing 1:1]
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.
18306 33-35-15 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Moulded. Light greenish drab clay. Nude female figure with hands on breasts. Head very small and birdlike: hair treated as in archaic Samian statues: hips and thighs grotesquely wide. Completely, but a poor impression from the mould.
18391 33-35-56 (none) (none) Clay figurine. Hand modelled, crude, of an animal. On the right shoulder an incised sign. [drawing of sign] (P.) Pl.44 vol. IV
18416 33-35-16 (none) (none) Clay figurine. Crudely hand-modelled in dark clay. Made to the top of the hips only: in the flat base is a hole to attach the figure to a trunk of some other material. The head is very small and birdlike, the arms like wings (? Under a cloak?)
18417 33-35-17 (none) (none) Baked clay figurine. Crudely hand-modelled. Nude female, to the hips only: the breasts attached in snowman technique (one missing), the nose pinched to a beak, the hair attached by a clay ribbon, the arms wing-like.
18423 33-35-57 (none) (none) Animals head in dark clay. Hand modelled. The eyes incised, mouth and nostrils carefully rendered: good work.
18527 33-35-20 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment of: one of the Al Obaid female figures: nude but with a black painted girdle: the feet and the body above the waist missing. [drawing]
18565 33-35-64 (none) (none) Terracotta mould. For making a figurine of a nude standing female figure (entirely encrusted with salt)

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