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)
8758	(none)	(none)	B17204	Grotesque figure. Baked clay. Hand modeled. Left arm missing. Male? figure, flattened head, pellet eyes, coarse nose, rounded chin; holds vertically against breast an object which looks like a thick stick with a hooked top. Lower part of body hollowed out inside; intended to receive a holder? [drawing 1:2]
9776A	(none)	(none)	B16742	[A-L] Shell Plaques. Found in confusion and scattered in the soil (the filling of the shaft) 12 plaques with animals, of which 2 are broken. 4 1/2 others completely decayed. 7 white squares each with 5 blue dots. 3 black squares each with 5 white dots. 2 squares with rosettes. 9 pieces (strips) with eye pattern most of these have suffered by the decay of the shell. Also a quantity of narrow edging slips in mother-of-pearl, red stone and lapis.
10917B	(none)	(none)	B16746	Shell Plaque, 2, belonging to U.10916 (A, B) A= Silhouetted plaque of 2 goats on either side of a plant growing on a mountain; usual heraldic type of animals rampant Photo 1066 [drawing] 1:1 B= Silhouetted plaque, a lion seizing an antelope (lions head missing). Photo 1066 1130c [drawing]
11222	(none)	(none)	B16745	Shell Plaque. half. Silhouetted: a half-human monster fighting with a bull. [drawing 1:1]
11400	(none)	(none)	B17198	Limestone relief. Fragment of inlay from a frieze. The upper part of a male figure with arms raised holding a pole as if punting a boat.
12059	31-16-775	(none)	(none)	Terracotta Figurine. Bottom portion missing. Male figure wearing high mitre-like headress, long pointed beard and flaunced kaukanes skirt. Arms bare & bent at elbow, hands held horizontally against waist. In each hadn a staff with the top ending in a ball which rests against shoulder. Possibly a mace? Bracelet on each wrist. Headdress incised with undulating lines radiating obliquely from top of head. Possibly a woollen cap?
12435B	30-12-484	(none)	(none)	[A] Copper bull's head and shell plaques [B]. From a wooden harp. The head (?) that of a calf rather than a bull is in good condition except that the horns are both damaged: the eyes are of lapis and shell and a triangular piece of lapis is inlaid in the forehead. The collar was of white shell triangles and lapis square. The shell plaques have, above, 3 rows of geometric design, each row on a separate strip of shell: then a figure scene, a single strip of geometrical design, another figure scene and 2 strips of geometrical design at the base. The figure scenes are in the mosaic, the white shell figures silhouetted against a composite background of lapis. In upper, a figure seated left holds in his raised right hand a cup while an attendant stands before him. In lower scene, 2 figures advance right, each with his hands raised and clasped in front of him. All the figures wear the fleeced skirt with a belt which forms a tail-like tassel behind: all are clean shaven as to the face but the standing figure s have a lock of hair hanging down the back of the head.
12500B	31-17-324	(none)	(none)	[A-E] Terracotta figurines. Very crude, archaic work representing human beings. [drawing]
12748	31-16-774	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Fragment = moulded. Male figure, beardless, advancing right : the left hand is across the body and holds a curved weapon like a scimitar : on the head a small cap with broken : long cloak passing over right shoulder. Broken away at the hips. [drawing 1:1]
12752	31-16-989	(none)	(none)	Clay figurine. Head of a camel. [drawing 1:1]
12753A	30-12-541	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Clay 'rattles' [drawing]
12761	31-16-768	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief moulded. Nude female figure holding her breasts. Broken off below the knees. [drawing 1:1]
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]
12767A	31-16-747	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Clay figurines of animals.
12767B	31-16-746	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Clay figurines of animals.
12767C	31-16-751	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Clay figurines of animals.
12767D	31-16-750	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Clay figurines of animals.
12767E	31-16-745	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Clay figurines of animals.
12767G	31-16-752	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Clay figurines of animals.
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].
12782	31-16-772	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figure. Moulded. Female, hands clasped, full face, seated, wearing horned cap and dress of pleated flounces to feet.
12786	31-16-850	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Fragment of moulded female figure, nude, with hands clasped below breasts : full face broken off at waist.
12788	31-16-773	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurines. Fragment. Moulded. Female figure, full face, from waist upwards; hands clasped below breasts, fillet round hair, torso nude.
13506	33-35-44	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Bearded male figure carrying a monkey on his shoulders. Monkey, head and arms of man in profile, torso of man full face. Arms bent at elbow, forearm parallel with ground. In his left hand the man holds a rope which is attached to the monkey's neck. Figure missing below waist but probably the man was leading a second monkey. Example is of importance chronologically for it was found in the Larsa filling and against the inner face of the SE wall of the Nebuchadnezzar Temenos. The rubbish stratum is well dated to the _Larsa_ Period. It seems therefore that this figure is also represented on the Asshur-Nasir-Pal reliefs was already in the Assyrian period a cult object of a considerable antiquity and was not simply (as formerly supposed) a man leading in tribute to the king. Common type.
14067	31-16-779	(none)	(none)	Snakes head. Terracotta fragment: body missing. [drawing 1:1]