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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8112 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Heavily draped goddess hands clasped below breast. Missing below waist. Hair done up in a bandeau which is worn high over the forehead. Markings on the forehead below the bandeau. These may be intended to represent fringes of hair? or jewellry? 2 horns are on either side of head over the ear. Hair ends in a thick bunch on either side of ear. Behind the head a feathered headdress (sheaves of corn?). Goddess wears necklace consisting of 3 strings of small beads and below the 3 strings a fourth of heavy beads with a large central bead. Top of dress consists of 2 thick bands falling from each shoulder and forming the angle of a V between the breasts. Band appears to be raised on left shoulder. Thick sleeves pleted at elbows. Heavy wrist-bangles. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8261 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Dog? Unbaked clay. Roughly modeled. |
| 8286 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Buffalo? unbaked clay. [drawing] 1:1 |
| 8292 | (none) | (none) | B17196 | Head of male. Unbaked clay. Not made in a mould. Traces of black paint under the eyes. Hole pierced through bottom of head vertically to hold a pole. | |
| 8322 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay figurine. A dog? [drawing] 1:1 vol IV |
| 8325 | (none) | (none) | B16802 | Figurine of bull in lapis lazuli wearing a false beard. [drawing] 1:1 Style of the 1st Dynasty of Ur. | |
| 8341 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of figurine. Dark clay. Hand modeled, snowman technique. [drawing] 1:1 |
| 8348A | (none) | (none) | B17228 | [A-C] Three figurines of animals. Roughly modeled in clay. Best example [A]: [drawing 1:1] | |
| 8349 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay phallus? A fragment only, broken off from some object, perhaps a figurine: interesting as showing circumcision. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8368 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Figurine of bull. Lapis lazuli. The bull seated, head L, the body in profile, the head turned to the spectator and seen full face: a formally-curled square beard is tied under the bull's chin by a cord passing across its nose. |
| 8397 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bird. A silhouette in copper sheet, with the front wing added in relief. [drawing] 1:1 Possibly the head of a pin? A fragment of a copper pin was found close by. |
| 8472 | (none) | (none) | B17197 | Head of priest. Shaven? and shorn Limestone White. Face entirely lost - ears and back of head alone remain Hole pierced through bottom of neck to admit a pole. | |
| 8473 | (none) | 1928,1009.471 | (none) | Terracotta head of female Upper right-hand side of head missing Hair falls down side of head in long tresses Pronounced chin, straight nose and slight ridge in middle of forehead Hellenistic style? [drawing] 1:1 sketch | |
| 8500 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Female head. Fragment. Back half of head alone remains. White limestone. Thick bandeau runs round head. cf. white marble head of goddess found in EH 1925-26 season. (see U.6782) Date c. 2400 BC? |
| 8555 | (none) | 1928,1009.463 | (none) | Terracotta relief Head missing: male figure, bearded, a dancer right: club in right hand: short skirt to knees. Surface poor. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 8593 | (none) | 1935,0113.831 | (none) | Figurine. Mud: of a dog? [drawing 1:1] | |
| 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] | |
| 8642 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell carving of a panther's head in the round.White shell. the line of the mane was filled in with black paste. The tongue is of red stone, the eyes were inlaid with red and black. Very fine miniature work. The piece is complete: it is cut off at the neck, and was clearly meant to be inset in a body. [drawing 1:1] |
| 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] | |
| 8787 | (none) | (none) | (none) | FAIENCE MASK Portion of neck missing. Each ear perforated three times. Two rows of holes partially perforated through neck. Hole partially perforated through middle of mask from the back. Fine bold modelling. Holes in neck inlaid with bitumen? Vol VII. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8852 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Roaring lion's head. Not made in a mould. Very fine hand modelling.[drawing 1:1] |
| 8853 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Grotesque male figure. Missing below the waist. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8854 | (none) | 1948,0423.73 | (none) | Bearded god. [drawing 1:1] |
| 9078 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Miniature dove Gold Worked: with greenish blue stone tail let in |
| 9252 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Donkey's ear? Lapis lazuli Spoon shaped with a rounded socket which must originally have been fitted to the statue of which the lapis ear was a part. Back of the ear is convex with a ridge running vertically down the middle. At the socket end of the ear in the middle, a shallow circular cavity 0004 in diameter. [drawing] 1:1 |