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)
8640 (none) (none) B17215 Clay figurine. Crudely made of reddish clay, the surface covered with a bright dark hematite wash. A row of small holes denotes the main features, but there is also a minimum of relief modelling. [drawing]
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.
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]
12752 31-16-989 (none) (none) Clay figurine. Head of a camel. [drawing 1:1]
12767B 31-16-746 (none) (none) [A-G] Clay figurines of animals.
14436 31-16-999 (none) (none) Clay figurine. Fragment only. Showing the buttocks in profile. Greenish clay with black paint. [drawing 1:1]
15324 31-16-973 (none) (none) Clay figurine. A sheep(?). [drawing 1:1]
15356A 31-16-735 (none) (none) Baked clay figurine. 2 fragments from similar figure. Green clay with black paint. Nude female figure with painted waist-band. The modelling of the lower part is unusually free and round. [drawing]
15379 31-16-734 (none) (none) Clay figurine. Female figure, nude, with hands on waist. She wears a high headdress, or high coiffure, originally covered with bitumen: traces remain of black apint in the eyes and of red paint on the cheeks.
15385 31-16-733 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. A nude female standing, with the hands resting on the waist. The high head is covered with bitumen to represent hair (this preserved).
15398 31-16-736 (none) (none) Clay figurine. The head only. On the high headress(?) traces of black bands: the face painted bright red. [drawing 1:1]
15717 31-16-972 (none) (none) Terracotta Figurine. Statuette of a cat(?)like figure.
15734 31-16-885 (none) (none) Terracotta statuette. Headless & hands missing. Very rough modelling. Cicular below waist. Hollowed from base to waist.
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.
15779 31-16-976 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Horse and rider. Fragment. Head and legs missing. Type same as 15739
16263 31-43-368 (none) (none) Terracotta Figurine. Grotesque & primitive-looking nude female figure: legs missing: head is strangely bird-like [drawing 1:1]
16403 31-43-432 (none) (none) Clay Figurine. Crudely modeled by hand. 2 human figures. [drawing]
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]
16436J 31-43-402 (none) (none) Terracotta figurines. Tambourine player: Type IIIa. A sub-species (1): (A) Fragment preserved from hips upwards: (B) Fragment from waist upwards; (C) fragment from knees up; from a different mould, the head being smaller; (D) fragment rom thighs up: similar to last; (E) fragment from waist up: similar to last, a much worn example; (F) fragment from waist up: sub-species 2; (G) fragment head & feet missing; (H) fragment head & legs missing; (J) fragment broken off at waist, fair impression; (K) fragment broken off at thighs, poor condition (sub-species 1344?) or type III, cf. ; (L) fragment broken away at knees; fair impression; (M) Complete except for feet, but the face damaged & chip off tambourine; (N) Fragment from waist up, poor ; (O) Similar type but from a much smaller mould; broken away at hips; (P) Fragment from waist upwards, good impression; (Q) Fragment from hips upwards, poor and badly encrusted with salt.
16461 31-43-435 (none) (none) Terracotta Figurine. Moulded and then partly hand-modeled. Bearded and horned god. [drawing]

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