Manufacture

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

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
16912	31-43-384	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure, hands apparently by sides. (A) Broken off above waist. [drawing 1:1]
16916	31-43-418	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess or woman. Nude(?) with hands clasped below breast : on background, crescent moons and stars. A) fragment broken away at waist. [drawing 1:1]
16919	31-43-443	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Bearded man standing, full face: right hand to breast, left hand by side: he wears cloak and skirted garment. (poor condition, destroyed by salt.) Fragment, feet missing. [drawing 1:1]
16920	31-43-463	(none)	(none)	Terracotta. A disk with 2 short legs: on the top of it, the head and arms of a woman with breast in front; hand modeled and very rough. [drawing 1:1]
16922	(none)	1931,1010.400	(none)	Terracotta relief. Moulded and then worked up by hand with extra clay added; nude female figure with left hand holding object to breast, and right hand extended holding a saucer. Fragment only, broken off below waist. [drawing 1:1]
16925	(none)	1931,1010.409	(none)	Terracotta relief. Bearded god with horned headdress and kaukanes, carrying two clubs: upper part of body nude. (A) Fragment broken away at hips; good impression. [drawing 1:1]
16927F	31-43-178	(none)	(none)	Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
16931B	31-43-408	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess with horned hat and long tresses, draped, hands raised with fingers meeting at neck. (A) Fragment broken off at breast. (B) Fragment broken off at waist. (Type IV, b.1.)
16936	31-43-395	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Draped female figure, standing, with hands to breasts: elaborate coiffure but no head ornaments. (A) complete and in good condition. [drawing 1:1]
16938	(none)	1931,1010.426	(none)	Terracotta relief. Back of bedstead. Horned bull-footed demon grasping a crescent-topped staff, beyond this, a gryphon(?) and a monkey(?). (A) Complete but poor cast. [drawing 1:1]
16939A	31-43-386	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief of nude female with hands below breasts. (A) Complete. (B) Broken but complete except for feet; (C) Broken away at knees, poor cast. (D) Broken away at knees, poor cast; (E) Complete, the legs cut apart after moulding (F) Complete; (G) Mould taken only to navel and the cast then rounded off (probably same mould poor); (H) Complete (as above). All the above are of very lightly fired clay, red or yellowish grey, and form a group distinct from nearly all the other terracottas. They might be modern casts from an ancient mould. Type III c.Y
16939E	(none)	1931,1010.457	(none)	Terracotta relief of nude female with hands below breasts. (A) Complete. (B) Broken but complete except for feet; (C) Broken away at knees, poor cast. (D) Broken away at knees, poor cast; (E) Complete, the legs cut apart after moulding (F) Complete; (G) Mould taken only to navel and the cast then rounded off (probably same mould poor); (H) Complete (as above). All the above are of very lightly fired clay, red or yellowish grey, and form a group distinct from nearly all the other terracottas. They might be modern casts from an ancient mould. Type III c.Y
16939F	(none)	1931,1010.443	(none)	Terracotta relief of nude female with hands below breasts. (A) Complete. (B) Broken but complete except for feet; (C) Broken away at knees, poor cast. (D) Broken away at knees, poor cast; (E) Complete, the legs cut apart after moulding (F) Complete; (G) Mould taken only to navel and the cast then rounded off (probably same mould poor); (H) Complete (as above). All the above are of very lightly fired clay, red or yellowish grey, and form a group distinct from nearly all the other terracottas. They might be modern casts from an ancient mould. Type III c.Y
16941B	31-43-428	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure, the right arm raised above head. (A) Fragment broken away below breasts; (B) Complete except for feet, but much encrusted with salt. (C) Complete, but most of the body flaked away. Different mould. (Type III, c. GG)
16942	31-43-397	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Draped female figure standing with hands clasped below breasts plain chiton. (A) Broken away above ankles; poor cast and face all gone. [drawing]
16943A	31-43-410	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess standing with hands to breast and wearing long flounced dress. Figure grotesquely elongated. (A) Head and feet missing. [drawing]
16946B	(none)	1931,1010.436	(none)	Terracotta relief. Grotesque nude male figure. (A) Fragment from waist downwards. (B) Similar (penis removed); (C) complete example in fine condition. (D) Fragment from waist downwards. [drawing A 1:1]
16946D	31-43-429	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Grotesque nude male figure. (A) Fragment from waist downwards. (B) Similar (penis removed); (C) complete example in fine condition. (D) Fragment from waist downwards. [drawing A 1:1]
16947A	(none)	1931,1010.387	(none)	Terracotta relief. Male(?) figure carrying a load of firing(?). (A) Fragment, broken below waist; a good deal defaced. [drawing 1:1]
16949	31-43-417	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Goddess with Flounced dress and turret crown. (A) broken away at knees. Very bad condition, (All hidden by salt). [drawing]
16952	31-43-370	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Hand-modeled. With elaborate headdress, perhaps based on the Egyptian. [drawing 1:1]
16953A	31-43-387	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female figure. With hands clasped below breasts; lines of dots on background. (A) Complete, but in very bad condition, and hidden by salt.
16957	(none)	1931,1010.509	(none)	Terracotta relief. A rams fleece with a head attached(?) hand-modeled. (1) Complete except for surface chip at top corner. [drawing 1:2]
16962	(none)	1931,1010.492	(none)	Terracotta relief. A mastif: very fine bold work. Feet broken away. [drawing 1:1]
16964	31-43-403	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female with hands to breasts. Grotesque. (A) broken away at thighs. [drawing 1:1]