Figurines
This category includes objects that are representations of humans or animals that are in 3D and may have been free standing.
Representations of humans or animals in 3D which are hand modeled or mold-pressed and may have been free standing. These are separated from Plaques and Reliefs because they contain one main subject, no border, a plain background, are in high relief, and depict a stationary individual, either standing or sitting.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7139A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Male head. Fragment. Hard clay? Reddish. Unusual type. (Card received from Mallowan 1976. [illegible signature]) |
| 7144A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Human head, pinkish limestone. Carved in the round: the head clean shaven, the features markedly indivdual. in B U.7144 is R.1.265 [in different hand] |
| 7515 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Traces of glaze bleached white. Fragmentary below breast. Female supporting in left hand a harp which leans over the left shoulder. Hair done up in a bag with fillet over forehead; thick plaits of hair on either side of head, falling as far as shoulder. Female wears a necklace, and right hand is apparently engaged in playing the harp while the left hand supports the harp. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7538 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta plaque. Goddess seated on throne with concave seat and no back. Full face down to waist except for arms. Legs in profile. High horned headdress, hair falls down on either side of shoulders and ends in a large curl. High flounced kaunakes dress with long and wide sleeves. Left forearm exposed to show bangle. cf. U. _ |
| 7539 | (none) | (none) | B17206 | Terracotta figurine. Enthroned goddess wearing flounced kaunakes dress, high horned headdress, hair hangs below shoulders and ends in a curl. Both hands clasped over waist. High horned headdress rising in tiers. Throne has a straight back to it.. Behind the seat at an angle of 45 degrees to it are two fragmentary legs protruding well behind the plaque os that the plaque could have originally stood vertically, supported by its props on the table. On either side of the headdress horns and from either side of the top cow's ears. [drawing 1:3] | |
| 7541 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Feet missing. Nude female grasping a pot against her breast in both hands. Hair falls down to shoulders. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7542 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta head. Lower part of beard missing. Grotesque. Pellet eyes and sharp ridge to nose. Lower part of face incised. Thick bandeau round head. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7549 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary below waist. Bearded god with thick protruding nose, wearing high conical cap with a peak which has a triangular parting to it on the middle of the forehead. Against the breast, on either side of the beard the tops of long staves? Wide square shoulders. Two rounded plaits of hair one on either side of head fall just below cap. On either side of breast rosettes and below beard an inverted crescent moon. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7555 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Head broken from body. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7570 | (none) | (none) | B17209 | Terracotta figurine. Grotesque. Missing below waist. Bearded male figure wearing fringed turbine wound round head in tiers? and supporting vertically against the body two ceremonial litni which rest on either shoulder, curved tops reaching top of head. 2 incisions around each litnus at the top in the straight portion. Nose thick and shapeless. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 7574 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone fragment of statute. Human right hand, life size. Missing above knuckles. Blue diorite. Forefingers bent and grasping the back of the second hand? Skin round nails neatly pared and rounded off. [drawing 1:3] |
| 7584A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Apotropaic mud figures. [drawing 1:2] |
| 7584B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Apotropaic mud figures. [drawing 1:2] |
| 7584C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Apotropaic mud figures. [drawing 1:2] |
| 7587 | (none) | (none) | B17216 | Owl? Unbaked clay. Oblong block with rounded edges. 2 cavities for eyes sockets and in each cavity a cowry shell to represent eye ball. Nose roughly pinched to form a projecting ridge between the eyes. Cavity in top of head 002 in diam. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 7590 | (none) | (none) | B16762 | Boar? Miniature. Steatite. Black. End missing. Head naturalistic, body peg shaped, flattened base with incisions in form of a + and x. Body divided into 3 distinctive sections, middle section having rounded base. 2 round cavities for eyes. 3 similar cavities on one side of body, 2 on the other and 3 on base. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7599 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seated figure? Limestone. White. Fragment. Left-hand in high relief represented as clasping the cross piece of the seat of a throne. Part of vertical support of throne at back, and notched front leg? alone remain. On right side remains of bottom of garment of figure, vertical incised parallel lines marking like folds. Back rounded. |
| 7600 | (none) | (none) | B17195 | Lion. Limestone. White. Fragment. Broken away behind back of head represented as couched, head resting on forelegs tips of which are missing. Flattened base. Cavity running length-ways down the middle of the body to receive post. Existing portion broken and mended. |
| 7601 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta plaque. Fragment. Male figure (missing below waist). Head, arms and legs in profile, trunk full face. Right arm raised behind head and wielding an object? In right hand, left arm bent at elbow and held down-wards grasps in left hand the head of conquered foe? [drawing 1:1] |
| 7602 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Broken below waist. Nude female suckling child against breast, supporting it with left hand and holding the right against its head. Left hand of female figure holds her right wrist. Female wears a fillet round head, earrings and a necklace. Twisted plait of hair falls down either side of head and ends in a thick curl on the shoulder. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7633 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Miniature hands. Alabaster. White. Fragment. Part of statuette? representing a figure with right hand clasped over left. 4 fingers of left hand and 2 of right alone remain. Tips of 2 fingers of right hand only, nails carefully carved. Tips of fingers of left hand missing; hand partially closed. Little finger of right hand rests on first finger of left hand. |
| 7669 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Head missing. Nude female. One hand on each prest in high relief. [drawing 1:1] Neo-Babylonian |
| 7670 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Hands clasped below breast. Head and feet missing. Female wears necklace and wrist bangles. Between the breasts a rosette and on either side a vertical post? decorated at intervals with rosettes. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7671 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude female wearing fillet? round forehead. Hands clasped below breast. Missing below knees. In high relief. Back as usual unmodeled; rough overlap with jagged edges to each side of back. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7672 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Top half missing. Lower half of figure in long flowing dress standing on bearded goat. [drawing 1:1] |