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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)
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
18415A (none) 1933,1013.224 (none) Clay figurines. Crudely hand-modelled in dark clay. Nude female figures, steatopygous, the heads very small, the arms thick and short. The lower part of the legs of B missing.
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.
18420A (none) 1933,1013.226 (none) Clay figurines. Crudely hand-modelled. No heads, flat wing-like arms, flat bases.
18423 33-35-57 (none) (none) Animals head in dark clay. Hand modelled. The eyes incised, mouth and nostrils carefully rendered: good work.
18424 (none) 1933,1013.231 (none) Clay owl's head. Baked clay. Hand-modelled with spike below for attachment.
18493 (none) 1933,1013.181 (none) Terracotta relief. (complete). Standing male figure facing right wearing kilt and cloak and carrying mace.
18495 (none) 1933,1013.203 (none) Terracotta relief. Puzuzu head (complete)
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)
18567 33-35-21 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Female figure, standing, facing right. Both hands raised in gesture of prayer. Long simple drapery, horned head dress.
18568 (none) 1933,1013.185 (none) Terracotta relief. Nude female figure with hands clasped below breasts.
18605 (none) 1933,1013.246 (none) Clay vase, painted. Characteristic Jemdet Nast 3 color design. Type new JN.32.
18606 (none) 1933,1013.249a (none) Clay vase, painted with red wash, burnished. Type JN.j.12. Very badly smashed.
18610 33-35-22 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of naked female figure: hands clasped below the breast, hair dressed in curls over the ears and necklace round the neck. Broken about the knees.
18611 (none) 1933,1013.183 (none) Terracotta relief. Woman squatting holding a baby to her left breast, she wears headdress of ribbed material.
18613 33-35-24 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of bearded male figure wearing a high headdress, with ornament falling down from it to below the shoulders on each side. Curls of hair on each side of the face, hands clasped, and wearing some kind of close-fitting dress. Broken below the waist.
18619 (none) 1933,1013.187 (none) Terracotta releif of bearded male figure, with headdress falling down on each side, holding two objects over his chest, feet broken off.
18620 33-35-58 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of a lion, passing to the right with mouth open, tail over back.
18701 33-35-26 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Beaded man walking right: wears loose drapery and carries a flail (?) over his right shoulder: behind him a seated monkey.
18702 33-35-27 (none) (none) Terracotta figure. Hand modelled. Grotesque and female with sharply pointed nose, enormous locks of hair and heavy necklaces. Arms and all body below waist missing and breasts (snowman technique) broken off.
18703 (none) 1933,1013.182 (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female, full face, with flat crown, large earrings (?), heavy necklace and a strongly marked triangle for pudenda: hands clasped below breast. Feet missing.
18722 (none) 1933,1013.244 (none) Clay pot, painted. Drab clay with design in red on the shoulder. Type JN sj.8 but with 2 spouts side by side. [Note on back card reads Beads missing. JNG 15 - lozenge shaped carnelian.]
18775 35-1-105 (none) (none) Terracotta relief, fragment of. From the breasts upwards, a nude female figure in high relief: common features of 'Kassite' type.

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