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)
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]
16477 (none) 1931,1010.385 (none) Terracotta Figurine. Small seated goddess. Type VI, 10 (A) Rough impression, complete to knees only.
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]
1739 (none) 1924,0920.135 (none) Miniature vase. Light drab clay. Handmade. Cf. RC.83c [drawing]
1740 (none) 1924,0920.136 (none) Miniature bowl. Hand-made. Flat-bottomed.
1749 (none) 1924,0920.138 (none) Miniature vase. Handmade. Light reddish clay. Cf. RC.188 and 231
1754 (none) (none) B15686 Clay Figurine. Hand-modeled. Female (?) figure in snowman technique: elaborate applied headdress. Arms broken, but were free; figure broken at waist, part of chest flaked off. P.
1760 (none) (none) B15723 Terracotta figurine hand-modeled. a goat [drawing 1:1] P.
1761 (none) (none) B15707 Terracotta figurine. Pig. 2 rear legs missing, incised on belly. P. 15707 [drawing 1:1]
1785 (none) (none) B15649 Figurine. Red clay. Male. Head and trunk only. Cracks in head and beard. [drawing 1:1]
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]
18205 32-40-44 (none) (none) Terracotta head of a dog (?). Hand modelled, lively work.
18237 33-35-13 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment of male figure, archaic type. [drawing 1:1]

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