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)
18047A	32-40-34	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Nude female standing full face, hands clasped. (A) Complete to knees. (B) Complete but mould has failed between knees and feet. (C) Complete. (D) Complete from knees upwards. Poor impression. (E) The same figure but 2 heads struck from the same mould have been attached to one body, very clumsily. Doubtful authenticity. Said to be from Digdiggeh.
18039B	32-40-35	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Nude female, -young girl- standing full face, hands clasped = hair in waves, double necklace. (A) = fragment, complete from thighs upwards. (B) Fragment, from waist up. Not from the same mould, but identical type. (C) Fragment from waist up = perhaps from the same mould as (B). (D) Fragment, from hips up = same type but from a smaller mould.
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.
17605	32-40-37	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Moulded.
18026	32-40-38	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Puzuzu head.
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.
18160	32-40-43	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Hand modelled of a humped bison (?): the horns both missing. [drawing]
18205	32-40-44	(none)	(none)	Terracotta head of a dog (?). Hand modelled, lively work.
18086	32-40-45	(none)	(none)	Clay mould. For making figurines. Goddess wearing a flat low headdress. Fragment: only the head and ahoulders left.
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.
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.
18420E	33-35-19	(none)	(none)	Clay figurines. Crudely hand-modelled. No heads, flat wing-like arms, flat bases.
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]
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.
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.
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.
18616B	33-35-25	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Terracotta relief. Of full face female figure, wearing a high headdress with long curled ornaments on each side falling onto the shoulders, a double bead necklace to which the hands are raised. Broken about the waist. Two examples.
3163B	33-35-257	(none)	(none)	Children's rattles. Mince-pie pattern with scalloped edge.
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.