Anthropomorphic
This category includes representations of humans in 3D that may have been free standing.
Representations of humans 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) |
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 | 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] |
| 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. | |
| 8349 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay phallus? A fragment only, broken off from some object, perhaps a figurine: interesting as showing circumcision. [drawing 1:1] |
| 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. | |
| 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? |
| 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] | |
| 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] |
| 8853 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Grotesque male figure. Missing below the waist. [drawing 1:1] |
| 9323 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay Pazuzu Head [drawing] 1:1 |
| 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] |
| 11408 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Fragment cf. from waist downwards, nude fig. of man advancing rt. Very good modelling and fine impression from the mould. [drawing] |
| 11409 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay Figurine. Fragment of head and shoulders of bearded male god, moulded in relief: 3 horned cap, long side curls and long beard. In left hand was a flail. Face battered. [drawing 1:1] |
| 11505 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Part of: moulded: goddess with flat cap and flounced dress, full face (preserved to the hips only): rt. hand is raised & holds a sickle (?): in the 1. arm an infant (?). [drawing 1:1] |
| 11798 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Head. A god or hero with human face & bulls ears and horns. The eyes originally inlaid with lapis & shell: the right eye gone altogether, of the left the lapis preserved. |
| 12059 | 31-16-775 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta Figurine. Bottom portion missing. Male figure wearing high mitre-like headress, long pointed beard and flaunced kaukanes skirt. Arms bare & bent at elbow, hands held horizontally against waist. In each hadn a staff with the top ending in a ball which rests against shoulder. Possibly a mace? Bracelet on each wrist. Headdress incised with undulating lines radiating obliquely from top of head. Possibly a woollen cap? |
| 12093 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Feet missing. Male figure wearing a turbaned headdress, long flowing coat, one arm bare & carrying against shoulder in right hand a standard? Left hand is against waist and carries a cord-like object. Head in profile, trunk full face, legs in profile. |
| 12500B | 31-17-324 | (none) | (none) | [A-E] Terracotta figurines. Very crude, archaic work representing human beings. [drawing] | |
| 12609 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta head. Of female (deity?) Missing below chin. On the head a wig held in position by a bandeau. Wig forms an apex in middle of the forehead below the bandeau and curves downwards on either side so as to pass over the ears. At right ear heavy double lunate earring; left ear missing. Hair parted in the middle. On top of head the hair is indicated by finely incised parallel lines running obliquely to the parting: heavier radial incisions indicate lower portion of wig below bandeau. Pronounced arched eyebrows: pellet eyes. Nose and mouth no longer in condition. |
| 12613 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Grotesque above, peg shaped below. Flat-topped head, in place of a face a ridge pinched outwards with a pellet on either side to represent the eye. Right arm rests against the breast, left arm is a stump. No hands. Each shoulder a raised ridge with incisions. -possibly intended to represent hair? [drawing 1:1] |
| 12750 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay figurine fragment hand modelled. Male (?) figure in attitude of prayer. [drawing 1:1] |
| 12756 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay relief. Moulded nude male figure (mouth deformed) [drawing 1:1] |
| 12757 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay relief. Moulded. Fragment. Upper part of draped and bearded male figure. [drawing 1:1] |
| 12758 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay relief. Moulded. Fragment: upper part (from navel) of nude female tambourine-player with big wig and elaborate headdress. [drawing 1:1] |
| 12760 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Fragment: moulded. A man taking hold of a ram. [drawing 1:1] |