Figural Objects

This category includes objects used to create figurines or plaques. They are usually made of stone or clay, to create clay 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)
(none)	(none)	1927,0527.240	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	1927,0527.241	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	1929,1017.729	(none)	(none)
18371	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay mould for making Puzuzu-head glazed beads: on the side of it an inscription.
17603	(none)	1932,1008.251	(none)	Clay mould for nude female figure (broken and mended).
16929A	31-43-90	(none)	(none)	Clay mould. (A) For a female head in profile, high relief: head with filletted and braided hair, looking right (in impression): rows of necklaces. Full face, rather pleasing and not like the usual Sumerian type. (B) For a bearded male figure, draped, standing in profile facing left (in impression) with hands clasped on breast. Very fine work, bold and yet delicate, perhaps goldsmiths moulds: the female head is best suited to such technique as gold-working. Brought in together and said to have been found together.
16929B	31-43-89	(none)	(none)	Clay mould. (A) For a female head in profile, high relief: head with filletted and braided hair, looking right (in impression): rows of necklaces. Full face, rather pleasing and not like the usual Sumerian type. (B) For a bearded male figure, draped, standing in profile facing left (in impression) with hands clasped on breast. Very fine work, bold and yet delicate, perhaps goldsmiths moulds: the female head is best suited to such technique as gold-working. Brought in together and said to have been found together.
18092	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay mould. For making figurines. Apparently - god advancing right but too covered with salt for the design to show.
18086	32-40-45	(none)	(none)	Clay mould. For making figurines. Goddess wearing a flat low headdress. Fragment: only the head and ahoulders left.
2718	(none)	(none)	(none)	Figurine mould. Fragmentary: of reddish ware, showing moulding for legs 4 feet.
3350	31-16-940	(none)	(none)	Fragment of mould for figurine. Limestone: showing flounced skirt of draped figure.
16745	(none)	(none)	(none)	Miniature Mould. Black steatite. For a dog figure. Part of hind leg missing. outline of back of mould. [drawing 1:1]
12629	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mould for Sirrush. Minute. Shale? Dark. Back of mould shaped like a rectangular stamp seal.
17690	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mould. Clay. Impression of large bellied, Set-like figure.
1551A	(none)	1924,0920.103	(none)	Mould. Fragment, waist downwards only. Yellow clay. Female figure, nude, with object at right hand.
1379	(none)	1924,0920.104	(none)	Mould. Fragment. Drab clay. For nude female figure, waist upwards only, remainder broken away.
1378	(none)	1924,0920.102	(none)	Mould. Reddish grey clay, for figurines of nude females with necklace and belt. Top of head broken.
18359	(none)	1933,1013.227	(none)	Terracotta mould for a small figure, grotesque, naked, full face, with bent knees, urinating.
18246	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta mould for a standing figure of a draped god, with long flounced skirt. The hands before the beasts, holding a mace.
16976	(none)	1931,1010.369	(none)	Terracotta mould for making a relief of a seated female figure holding a vase on her knees.
16903	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta mould for making a seated figure of a woman, draped, and suckling an infant.
18031	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta mould for moulding figurines. Relief of god and goddess side by side, each wearing a heavily flounced dress reaching to the feet; above, a crescent.
15752	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta mould. For head of PUZUZU.
7064	(none)	(none)	B16269	Terracotta mould. Enthroned figure - female? Wearing flounced Kaukenes skirt. E.
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.