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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)
16223 31-43-381 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Upper part only of nude female figure. [drawing 1:1]
16300 31-43-380 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Fragment. Legs missing. Draped female figure, the head disproportionately large. [drawing 1:1]
17161 31-43-379 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude female figure with hands clasped below breasts. Peculiarly coarse and violent type. (A) Fragment broken away at waist. [drawing 1:1]
16901B 31-43-378 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Female with flounced cloak, otherwise nude, hands to breasts. [drawing] (A) Fragment preserved from the hips up; (B) Fragment from the hands up: similar but smaller mould.
16453A 31-43-375 (none) (none) Terracotta Figurines. Nude female: Type III, C.H. (A) Fragment broken away at the waist; (B) Fragment broken away at hips.
16996 31-43-371 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine, fragment of female figure from chest to feet. Very primitive style. cf. Type IIIb. Flat and board-like. [drawing 1:1]
16952 31-43-370 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Hand-modeled. With elaborate headdress, perhaps based on the Egyptian. [drawing 1:1]
16263 31-43-368 (none) (none) Terracotta Figurine. Grotesque & primitive-looking nude female figure: legs missing: head is strangely bird-like [drawing 1:1]
6792 31-43-354 (none) (none) Rams head. Baked clay. White glaze.
17186 31-43-353 (none) (none) Clay ram's head. Hand modelled, the fleece done in applique (snowman technique). [drawing]
1114 31-43-350 (none) (none) Clay figurine. modelled : drab clay [drawing]
16401 31-43-342 (none) (none) Terracotta Figurine. Camel. The rider has been broken off. Hand modeled, rough. [drawing 1:1]
17184A 31-43-317 (none) (none) [A-B] Clay bird. (Usually hollow and containing a pebble, to serve as a rattle, but sometimes solid). Many examples. [drawing]
1445 31-43-316 (none) (none) Rattle. Red clay. Animal, head and legs broken off.
17190 31-43-315 (none) (none) Terracotta bird. Hand-modelled and coarsely engraved. [drawing].
16617 31-43-204 (none) (none) Puzuzu head. Black steatite.
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]
16427 31-43-173 (none) (none) Head of a ram. Dark steatite. Cult object for fixing on a pole. The neck and head made in 2 pieces; the eyes originally inlaid (inlay missing); perfect except for chips out of one horn and the ears. The neck and the head are covered with a fleece conventially rendered in small locks, the face smooth, the horns crinkled. Very good work. [drawing 1:1]
12778A 31-17-352W (none) (none) Group of objects: from PG/NW level; found between levels -760 and -800 below the planoconvex brick pavement (A) Clay animal figurine. (B) [.1-.6] Fragment of long clay beads imitating shell. (C) [.1-.9] A number of clay jar-sealing with seal impressions, all of one type, palmette enclosed (imperfect) [reference to drawing]. (see over [Annotated] Legrain 480 (D) An oval clay object. [Annotated] Legrain 481. (see over) [Drawing of impression] (E) Tubular ball (?) bead. (F) Copper needle. (G) [.1-.13] Various examples of pottery. [H] (also animal bones). -- The design on D and C is the same [drawing of design].
12500B 31-17-324 (none) (none) [A-E] Terracotta figurines. Very crude, archaic work representing human beings. [drawing]
12764 31-17-323 (none) (none) Clay figurine. Fragment, from belt to hem of skirt of a draped human figure hand modelled in a fine greenish clay with the surface smoothed about to the point of burnishing. Archaic, probably T.O. [Tel Obaid] period. [drawing 1:1]
14436 31-16-999 (none) (none) Clay figurine. Fragment only. Showing the buttocks in profile. Greenish clay with black paint. [drawing 1:1]
15354A 31-16-998 (none) (none) Figurine. Fragment. Baked clay animal. Green clay with black bands. (A) Striped body, very long, of a tiger(?) head & forelegs missing. [1:2 drawing] (B) Hind quarters. [1:2 drawing] (C) Forepart of buffalo. [1:2 drawing] (D) Pig. [1:2 drawing]
12752 31-16-989 (none) (none) Clay figurine. Head of a camel. [drawing 1:1]
15742 31-16-978 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Horse and rider. Fragment. Horse has a pronounced mane. Legs of horse and most of rider missing.

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