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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17190 | 31-43-315 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta bird. Hand-modelled and coarsely engraved. [drawing]. | |
| 14454A | 31-16-743 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta bear(?) Squatting on its haunches. Collar round neck(?) possibly accidental. Bottom of figurine is hollowed for purpose of fixing and there is also a shallow groove in top of head - for same purpose? ?Keep for terracotta volume. | |
 | 3276 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta animal. Presumably horse(?). Legs missing. Sketch. [drawing] |
| 2818 | (none) | 1927,1003.145 | (none) | Terracotta animal. Prehistoric, reddish ware with painted square design and tooth design on back. Possibly pig. Head missing. | |
| 7686 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta animal. Dog? Dark green painted line down middle of head running at right angles to dark green line across top of head and traces of same paint round neck. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18164 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta animal head. Crudely hand modelled. It has been applied to a vase: there is no hole for pouring, but it must have been the front of a zoomorphic vessel. In the back the wheel-turning marks are visible, and the soft clay has been pushed out to make the head. [drawing] |
| 16952 | 31-43-370 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Hand-modeled. With elaborate headdress, perhaps based on the Egyptian. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 15471 | (none) | 1935,0113.69 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Glazed. Lower half of nude female-missing above waist. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 15719 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Missing below waist. Goddess supporting a vase against breast, water flows down vase on either side. Figure wears a wig which comes down over the eras and supports large lunate earrings? Fillet(?) round forehead with 2 taenias on either side of face reaching to breast. Double string of beads(?) Conical headdress rising in tiers. |
| 1211 | (none) | (none) | B15695 | Terra cotta face or mask, broken away from rest of object. Resembles Greek comic mask, but may be face of Pazuzu. [drawing] P Photo 174 | |
| 6584 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terra cotta dog. B. |
| 15723 | (none) | 1935,0113.72 | (none) | Teracotta figurine. Nude female holding an offering table(?) suspended by a string. Missing above legs. | |
| 16292A | (none) | 1931,1010.109 | (none) | Stone sculpture. Fragments. In diorite. (A) two clasped hands. (B) part of base of vase with toes of left foot. About the same scale and possible from the same figure. |
| 16292B | (none) | 1931,1010.110 | (none) | Stone sculpture. Fragments. In diorite. (A) two clasped hands. (B) part of base of vase with toes of left foot. About the same scale and possible from the same figure. |
| 2591 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone phallus. White marine deposit pebble; roughly worked over. Sketch. [drawing] |
| 2671 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone phallus. Carefull carved from white pebble. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15805 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone object. Fragment. White limestone. Imitation basket work. |
| 15817 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone head. Of Goddess. Limestone. White. Fragment. Bandeau round forehead. IIIrd Dynasty Larsa Period. Possibly Larsa. Not for Vol IV. |
| 6857 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone head. Grey. Fragment. Part of hair and upper portion of face down to nose alone remains. Female head with fine wavy air and double chignon. Lose forehead, beaded line running round it just above eyebrows representing fringe of hair which protrudes below the chignon. Eyebrows carefully rendered by feathered line; prominent and strongly defined eyelids with protruding eyeballs. Carefully modelling of face and nose bottom of which is lost. B. |
| 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] |
| 6352 | (none) | (none) | B16229 | Steatite(?) [diorite is struck through] statue of Ningal. Presented by Enannatum son of Ishme-Dagan For his life. Upper part broken. Inscript. on 3 sides of the throne. Ur Texts, Vol. I, No. 103 E. CLW. Enter in catalog, Vol. VII HC. | |
| 19037 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statuette. White calcite. Of a woman, standing with hands clasped on her breast, wearing the kaukanes. The figure is carved in the round but the back is almost flat and the back of the head, which is missing, seems to have been added in plaster: it is carved from a slab of stone the back of which is the back of the statute. The eyes are inlaid with shell and lapis lazuli, and a strip of lapis lazuli forms the fillet across the forehead and down each side of the face: the eyebrows were in black paste (which came away in powder with the dirt) and there was black paint on the hair and in the grooves of the kaukanes: none of this could be preserved. The left side is stained green by the corrosion of the axe which lay against it. The stone is decayed in places and has run in blisters which interfere with the modelling of the face (right side) , right arm and hair. Some of the lapis inlay had been lost in antiquity. The figure is made in two pieces morticed together. |
| 178 | (none) | 1923,1110.46 | (none) | Statuette. Red stone. A winged bull or sphinx (?), couched, the head missing: in the back a small cup-like hollow. FGN drawing. [drawing] |
| 6920 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statuette. Bronze? Monkey on pedestal with arms uplifted; hands touching either side of face. B, |
| 14459 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statuette. In dark grey steatite. Of a wild boar, represented as crouched with the head on the front hoofs: in the top of the back is a circular hole as if for a wooden support: on the sides a sharp groove as if the beast had rested in a stand with curved arms. The work is remarkably fine and naturalistic. |