Handmade
Technique of creating an object by hand, or hand tools.
This category contains terms that are related to the making of objects by hand or by using hand toos. This is a non-mechanical process.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 18424 | (none) | 1933,1013.231 | (none) | Clay owl's head. Baked clay. Hand-modelled with spike below for attachment. | |
| 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] | |
| 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. | |
| 19495 | (none) | 1935,0112.109 | (none) | Clay model boat with very high stern and prow. | |
| 1965 | (none) | 1927,1003.139 | (none) | Not Assigned | |
| 25 | (none) | 1923,1110.95 | (none) | Clay model bed. Greenish clay and mattress pattern in relief. [drawing] [Annotated] Photo 38 | |
| 2780A | (none) | 1927,1003.132 | (none) | Pottery vases. Buff ware: widely splayed lip and pointed below baseline. A. is reconstructed, B. fragmentary. Type CXLIII = L.107. Larsa period. Found associates with U.2781 and U.2782. ? No (10) etc. L.5. (6) | |
| 2783 | (none) | 1927,1003.136 | (none) | Pottery vase. Red ware with slight 'neck'. Type CXLVI. (not p) | |
| 2939A | 31-16-968 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta pig. Head missing. (B) Has snout and eye. Sketch less than 1:1 [drawing] | |
| 2967 | (none) | 1927,1003.141 | (none) | Vase on stand. Drab ware, roughly handmade. Base ornamented with affixed clay discs. Sketch pattern 1:1. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 2978 | 31-16-785 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude votaress with clasped hands. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 302 | (none) | (none) | B14956 | Steatite box-lid. fr. of; Circular: the top carved with a rosette of which the petals were originally inlaid; two holes are pierced through the lid from side to side for strings. [Drawing 1:1} | |
| 3023 | (none) | (none) | B16252 | Terracotta bedstead. Buffware with rough rush pattern. Legs broken off. | |
 | 303 | (none) | 1923,1110.145 | (none) | Ivory carving: A bowl, with knob handles, the rim decorated with zigzags on top and double half-circles on the side, D. 85mm, supported by 2 nude female figures: these have each an arm round the other and with the free hands support the bowl on their heads. Broken into many frgs and restored. Parts of the 2 free arms are missing, otherwise virtually complete. |
| 304 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Limestone relief. Fragment of, In bad condition. Subject: a man kneeling rt and castrating a bull (?): the bull much damaged: to l. part of a fowl (?) on a large scale. Probably Chaldaean period. |
| 307 | (none) | 1923,1110.50 | (none) | Marble relief. Fr showing feathers or hair, possibly one side of a coiffure: certainly intended for inlay: hole in the back for fixing something (a face?) in the center. |
| 3088A | (none) | 1927,1003.124 | (none) | Pottery tumblers. Of buffware with straight sides. Poor quality pot, badly made. Type CXCI (not p) (B) Shallower. With U.3055, U.3074 fromt solitary grave. | |
| 3088B | (none) | 1935,0113.751 | (none) | Pottery tumblers. Of buffware with straight sides. Poor quality pot, badly made. Type CXCI (not p) (B) Shallower. With U.3055, U.3074 fromt solitary grave. | |
| 311 | (none) | (none) | B14991 | Terracotta bust. of a god wearing the horned tiara and heavy curls on shoulders. Good bold modelling, moulded and finished by hand. Eemuriana [written in red pencil] [drawing 1:1] | |
| 3128 | (none) | 1927,1003.138 | (none) | Clay pot. Head made of drab ware with scalloped shoulders. Sketch pattern 1:2. Type as U.1036. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 3169 | 87-28-21 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta boat. Flat bottomed with ornamented bow and stern. | |
| 3350 | 31-16-940 | (none) | (none) | Fragment of mould for figurine. Limestone: showing flounced skirt of draped figure. |
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Carved - Chipped - Coiled - Hammered - Hand Modeled - Hand Pressed - Pinched - Snowman - Twisted