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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 14462C | (none) | 1930,1213.31 | (none) | [B-E] 4 copper bull's hooves. Hammered over a bitumen core. |
| 15732 | (none) | 1930,1213.327 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude female wearing voluminous wig, done in 5 big bundles of curls one on top of head and 2 on either side. 4 necklaces. | |
| 15720 | (none) | 1930,1213.329 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Missing below waist. Head wrapped in bandeau. Wearing large earrings and beads round neck. | |
| 14461A | (none) | 1930,1213.330 | (none) | Animal on wheels. Light drab baked clay. Barrel shaped body. Head is horned. Barrel shaped neck with a perforated knob at the bottom to admit of attachment. Hole perforated pellet. 1 through muzzle. Center of back perforated with a hole 10mm in diameter. Found badly broken but almost complete, parts of body were missing. The wheels were also found but were sifted from contemporary rubbish. | |
| 15715 | (none) | 1930,1213.331 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Childs rattle in shape of statuette of Boar. | |
| 14958 | (none) | 1930,1213.332 | (none) | Fragment of zoomorphic clay vase. Light red clay. Only the back preserved, which should be restored as above. [drawing] | |
| 14979 | (none) | 1930,1213.333 | (none) | Clay figurine. Sheep. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 15348A | (none) | 1930,1213.334 | (none) | Dried clay figurines. Animals (cattle) roughly hand-modeled. | |
| (none) | (none) | 1930,1213.335 | (none) | (none) | |
| 15358 | (none) | 1930,1213.336 | (none) | Clay figurine. Fragment. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 15566 | (none) | 1930,1213.337 | (none) | Clay figurine. Fragment. In drab clay. Nude female with hands on flanks. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 14434 | (none) | 1930,1213.338 | (none) | Clay figurine. Fragment; head missing. Reddish clay, modelled. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 13505 | (none) | 1930,1213.571 | (none) | Dog. Miniature. Unbaked clay. Crude modelling. Dark green. Tail curled over back. Legs broken, rough head with not attempt at naturalization. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 16993 | (none) | 1931,1010.2 | (none) | Terracotta figure. Fragment. Head and shoulders only of a figure of a bearded god wearing horned crown and apparently seated in a chair. The figure is in the round and remarkably well modeled and moulded : the part that survives is in perfect condition. The right arm and shoulder are bare : over the left shoulder is a sheepskin cloak. The flesh of the figure is painted red, the beard and hair black (much faded), the sheepskin apparently black and white. The crown was yellow (virtually no traces left) and there was a collar or necklace of red and yellow alternating. The chair-back is black. Photos _. |
| 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. |
| (none) | (none) | 1931,1010.276 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1931,1010.365 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1931,1010.366 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1931,1010.367 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1931,1010.370 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1931,1010.371 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1931,1010.372 | (none) | (none) |