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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 3072 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Grotesque mask. Pinkish marble, pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 12776E | (none) | 1928,1010.752 | (none) | Group of objects: (A) Small fragment of obsidian vase. (B) [.1-.6] 3 long clay bugles, imitation of beads cut from core of shell. (C) Obsidian chip. (D) Jar - stopper of mud and lime, circular, one face flat, one convex, with rough incisions on flat face, perhaps accidental. (E) [.1-.2] Fragment of terracotta figure perhaps the head of a dragon (?). [Drawing] (F) Clay object, flat, with incised holes. (G) [.1-.6] Five fragments of clay jar sealings with seal impressions : all have rows of animals in wooded or rocky country. (H) [.1-.26] Pottery fragments 1) Plum red and back decoration on light ground: 2 examples. 2) Red decoration on light ground and other fragments. Not in catalog of Vol. IV. |
| 12778A | 31-17-352W | (none) | (none) | Group of objects: from PG/NW level; found between levels -760 and -800 below the planoconvex brick pavement (A) Clay animal figurine. (B) [.1-.6] Fragment of long clay beads imitating shell. (C) [.1-.9] A number of clay jar-sealing with seal impressions, all of one type, palmette enclosed (imperfect) [reference to drawing]. (see over [Annotated] Legrain 480 (D) An oval clay object. [Annotated] Legrain 481. (see over) [Drawing of impression] (E) Tubular ball (?) bead. (F) Copper needle. (G) [.1-.13] Various examples of pottery. [H] (also animal bones). -- The design on D and C is the same [drawing of design]. | |
| 12364E | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group. Comprising: [A] Gold hair ribbon. [B.1-.2] Large gold lunate earrings. [C] Wreath of gold leaves on lapis and carnelian beads. [D] Silver comb with 3 inlaid flowers (one broken off and incomplete). [E] Small clay figurines of a ram (?). |
| 12353B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Harp with [A] inlaid sounding box, mosaic imprints, silver top bar, decorated with a [B] bull's head, beaded, in gold, below which are [C] shell plaques. |
| 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] | |
| 1433 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of an animal. Fragment. Drab clay: modeled. 2 nicks are incised across nose. |
| 1432 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of animal. Fragment. Drab clay. modeled. The animal has a halter or muzzle; the eyes attached separately. |
| 1318 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of clay figurine of man wearing pointed cap; the eyes applied separately |
| 6444 | (none) | 1927,0527.37 | (none) | HEAD of female. FRAGMENT. Black Diorite. Left eye and left side of forehead mutilated. Hair represented by fine wavy parallel lines and done up in a chignon, overhanging loop at the back as in the diorite statue of UR-BAU. To go in Cat I of Vol. IV. |
| 8341 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of figurine. Dark clay. Hand modeled, snowman technique. [drawing] 1:1 |
| 2979 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of figurine. Bearded male with animal ears. Bearing mace. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2873 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of figurine. Brown terracotta well modeled. |
| 2875 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of figurine. Buff ware: female with headdress. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6417 | (none) | 1927,0527.36 | (none) | Head of male. Limestone. Lost below neck, and back of head missing. White. Shaven and stone probably of priest, well known type rounded cheek, small but pronounced chin, wide nose, deep eye sockets and heavily incised eyebrows. Heavy ears. E. [drawing] |
| 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. | |
| 6782 | (none) | (none) | B16228 | Head of Ningal? Alabaster. White. Eyes inlaid in lapis lazuli. E. [illegible, possibly resinous] cast in BM 118564. | |
| 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. | |
| 10400 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of Priest. Shaven and shorn. Dark grey limestone. Nose chipped. Missing below neck. Hole 5mm in diameter pierced vertically through neck to join the head to a body which doubtless consisted of some other material. Good modelling. Eyes and eyebrows heavily pronounced, coventional eyes shaped. Heavy nose, pursed up lips and small but pronounced chin. Head and figures typically Sumerian - dolichocephalic. [drawing] |
| 18102 | 32-40-141 | (none) | (none) | Head of statue in dark grey steatite. Fragment: only the back of the head with the ears and the corner of one eye. Clean shaven. Broken off across the neck. |
| 16423 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of statue. Dark steatite. Bearded male head with long hair dressed in the Assyrian fashion & long waved beard, both finely engraved. Good work but bad condition. The right side of the face perished and nose and lips gone, and the left side which is better preserved, damaged by rubbing. |
| 3253 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of statue. Black diorite:: head of young person, finely modeled, broken off at base of skull: nose broken. Sketch. In text: Neo-Babylonian period (8) but date is probably 3rd Dynasty or earlier. [drawing] |
| 17865 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of Statue. White limestone. Female, very coarse and ugly work. The eyees are inlaid. The hair on top of the head was in a different material and was fixed on by a copper peg part of which remains in a hole in the crown : the ears are pierced to take earrings. The figure is broken away under the chin and just across the shoulders: enough of the latter is left to show that it was a draped figure. The statue had been broken in antiquity and mended with bitumen. Kassite. |
| 18864 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of statutette. Coarse limestone. Female head with the hair in a chignon and confined by a broad fillet. The eyes were inlaid: face much damaged and surface of stone very bad. [drawing 1:1] |
| 3077 | (none) | 1927,1003.175 | (none) | Head of terracotta figurine. Finely modeled head with tall headdress. [drawing 1:1] |