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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. | |
| 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] |
| 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. |
| 15817 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone head. Of Goddess. Limestone. White. Fragment. Bandeau round forehead. IIIrd Dynasty Larsa Period. Possibly Larsa. Not for Vol IV. |
| 2671 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone phallus. Carefull carved from white pebble. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2591 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone phallus. White marine deposit pebble; roughly worked over. Sketch. [drawing] |
| 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. |
| 15723 | (none) | 1935,0113.72 | (none) | Teracotta figurine. Nude female holding an offering table(?) suspended by a string. Missing above legs. | |
| 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 | |
| 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. |
| 15471 | (none) | 1935,0113.69 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Glazed. Lower half of nude female-missing above waist. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16952 | 31-43-370 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Hand-modeled. With elaborate headdress, perhaps based on the Egyptian. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 311 | (none) | (none) | B14991 | Terracotta bust. of a god wearing the horned tiara and heavy curls on shoulders. Good bold modelling, moulded and finished by hand. Eemuriana [written in red pencil] [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17138A | 31-43-328 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta demon's head in very high relief. (A) Almost complete = good impression. [drawing 1:1] |