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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 6779B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seated goddess. Ur-Bau? Black diorite. One goose on either side of throne and one under each foot. |
| 2851 | (none) | 1927,1003.245 | (none) | Shell bird. Eagle of Lagash: head missing. |
| 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] |
| 2721 | (none) | 1927,1003.235 | (none) | Shell mask. Grotesque, pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2748 | (none) | 1927,1003.238 | (none) | Shell mask. Grotesque: pierced for suspension [drawing 1:1] |
| 3230 | (none) | 1927,1003.236 | (none) | Shell mask. Rough carving of beast's head, pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 10916 | (none) | (none) | B17065 | Silver Bulls Head With long horns and inlaid eyes The muzzle has been damaged, and one of the horns broken off and re-attached. It came from a wooden statue, judging from the fact that nothing else was found to which it could have belonged: the shell plaques U.10917 A and B must have been on its chest as usual Photo 1020 (a) | |
| 1464 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Small clay model, apparently of a dog crouching on top of a box: perhaps used as a pendant charm. |
| 1216 | (none) | (none) | B15636 | Small terracotta moulded relief, the lower end bent forward. Female figure possibly goddess, with elaborate headdress, wearing long flounced robe, hands clasped at waist. [drawing] | |
| 14067 | 31-16-779 | (none) | (none) | Snakes head. Terracotta fragment: body missing. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 1724 | (none) | (none) | B15645 | Standing bearded god. P. | |
| 16313 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statue base. Fragment. Basic diorite. 5 toes only remain on a stand. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7919 | (none) | 1928,1009.428 | (none) | Statue base. Limestone. Rectangular in section. Two feet of statue alone remain. Left foot slightly advanced. [drawing 1:2] |
| 17602 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statue fragment of White limestone. Back of head, showing type of hair-dressing: all the face in part of the ears broken away. [drawing] |
| 2734 | (none) | (none) | B16279 | Statue fragment. Black basalt, showing hair conventionall treated. Sketch. [drawing] |
| 2735 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statue fragment. Blue diorite; lower part of figure only, showing skin and back of skirt fringe; feet also broken off. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2694 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statue fragment. Diorite, from lower part of figure, showing fringe of robe. Sketch [drawing 1:2] |
| 3209 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statue fragment. White stone: breast of man, with flounced dress, holding circlet in right hand: left arm raised. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2732 | (none) | 1927,1003.58 | (none) | Statue of Da-da-i-lum. Fragment of bust. Inscription of 2 lines on right shoulder: Da-da-i-lum Si-lim ilZu-fa = Dadailum Protection of Sin. Name is semitic and also the prayer Silu(m) protection, and the writing to Zu-en (= Sin) H.C. |
| 16424 | (none) | 1931,1010.1 | (none) | Statue. White limestone, with eyes inlaid with shell and lapis; traces of black paint on hair. Female figure standing, hands clasped in front of the body. Nose broken, one eye pupil restored. The hair is simply treated with curls across the forehead, then a broad bandeau; the back hair is brought up & over the bandeau in a small chignon and hangs in a heavy wave above the shoulders & at back of head. She wears a plain chiton & heavy cloak falling from the shoulders over the arms in straight lines to the feet. The feet are missing, the base of the stone being broken away; when found the statue was let into a round baase and bitumen had been plastered round it & smoothed down so as to make a spreading skirt at the expense of loss of design to the figure, which was this reduced from an original height ofc. 54mm to 37mm (the bitumen has been kept on by waxing). It had also been broken in half and mended with bitumen. The workmanship is not very good, and the decayed surface of the stone does it less than justice - but the type is a good classical one. The statue was obviously an antiquity given a place of honor in a temple which must date to circ. BC; so that the date of the statue might well be as early as the 3rd dynasty of UR. |
| 16425 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statue. White limestone; broken in half but complete. The eyes inlaid with lapis, brown-painted shell and steatite, the nose of plaster, yellow paint on top of head. Female figure, standing rigid, the hands clasped in front of the body; she wears a long garment with 7 pleated flounces reaching to the ground, the arms hiden by the second flounce with seems to be a short cape. Two long tresses of hair hang down in front over the shoulders, the rest of the hair hangs down behind in a heavy square-cut netting. A bandeau passes across the forehead and also it rises a flat sharp-edged disk marked by criss-cross lines. It is painted yellow & may represent the (early) gold ribbon headdress; in the top of it at the back are 3 holes in which must have been stuck hed ornaments after the fashion of the (early) comos. The ears are pierced for metal ear0ring. The nose (perhaps because the original had been broken off(?) was made separately; there was a deep slot to fasten it on; one half of the nose modeled in plaster (out in bad condition & mishappen) was found and has been provisionally attacked. The figure is extraordinarily ugly, and the workmanship is flaccid and mechanical. |
| 3104 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statuette fragment. Black diorite: lower part of draped figure with flounced costume: feet broken off. |
| 3361 | (none) | 1927,1003.76 | (none) | Statuette fragment. White stone with diamond patter in relief on border and fragment of foot of figure. | |
| 16396 | (none) | 1931,1010.275 | (none) | Statuette of goddess. Standing on a rectangular plinth. Bronze(?) Solid casting. Standing figure draped in flounced kaukanes coat. High horned headdress. Hair done in a chignon at back to head, and 2 short fillets hang down in from of body just over shoulders. Arms appear to be bent at elbow, forearm held vertically against body. Rib runs down full length of back from chignon to top of plinth. |
| 17832 | (none) | 1932,1008.32 | (none) | Statuette of seated bull. White calcite. With square hole through the back to take an upright - The muzzle damaged by decay. |