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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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] | |
| 16785 | 31-43-494 | (none) | (none) | Copper knife. Tang broken and part missing. Type _ [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16920 | 31-43-463 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta. A disk with 2 short legs: on the top of it, the head and arms of a woman with breast in front; hand modeled and very rough. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 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] | |
| 16952 | 31-43-370 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Hand-modeled. With elaborate headdress, perhaps based on the Egyptian. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 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] | |
| 17075 | 31-43-490 | (none) | (none) | Papskukal. Mud figure, bearded male wearing a conical cap and girt with a balrick to which is attached a sword hanging from the left side. The right hand, raised and clasped a spear. Baldric mu weapons in copper traces of red paint on the mud. See sketch. Field note in AD. | |
| 17186 | 31-43-353 | (none) | (none) | Clay ram's head. Hand modelled, the fleece done in applique (snowman technique). [drawing] | |
| 17869 | 32-40-316 | (none) | (none) | Jeweller's trial piece (?). Fragment of a four-sided rod of white limestone: on one side a roughly cut intaglio; a small figure of a man copulating with a woman, the latter figure large and grotesque. | |
| 18085 | 32-40-21 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. (fragment) Al Obaid type. Reptilian head projecting forward; broad, flat shoulders, the arms (missing) widened like wings: female breasts and slender waist. The eyes are strongly aslant. The top of the head rises in a peak. Broken away at waist. | |
| 18087 | 32-40-30 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Hand modelled, snowman technique. Nude female figure standing full face. Fragment, the legs missing. The hands clasped upon breast. | |
| 18096 | 32-40-25 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Primitive. Hand modelled: man standing, right arm broken. [drawing] |
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Carved - Chipped - Coiled - Hammered - Hand Modeled - Hand Pressed - Pinched - Snowman - Twisted