Zoomorphic
This category includes representations of animals in 3D which may have been free standing.
Representations of 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12774K.2 | (none) | 1928,1010.735 | (none) | Objects. (A) Bead, long, clay imitation of bead cut from shell core. (B) Clay bugle bead. (C) Shell bugle bead. (D) Clay spindle whorl. (E) Copper needle (broken). (F) Clay nail. (G) Fragment of clay sickle. (H) Penannular ring of shell. [I not assigned in group] (J) [J.1-.11] Chips, flint and obsidian, including one flint piercer. (K) [K.1-.2] Fragments of clay animal figurines. (L) Animal tooth. (M) Miniature pot of reddish clay, broken. (N) Pottery fragments. [N.1-.4] 4 small bits black design on white, characteristic TO [Tel Obaid]; [N.5-.6] 2 pieces, black band on drab, coarse ware; [N.7-.10] 4 pieces red bands on drab [N.11] 1 piece plain red wash(?); [N.12-.13] 2 pieces, design in red on light ground; [N.14-.15] 2 pieces, design in red and black on light ground : rows of triangles and bands; [N.16-.18] 3 pieces with transverse bands of erased slip decoration, light red on deeper red body. (O) [O.1] Cylindrical vase of light drab clay and [O.2] fragment of a second similar. (P) Clay jar sealing (?) with scratched design. (Q) Clay jar sealing with impression of seal cylinder : subject, bulls and square shrines. (R) Clay cup, reddish ware, wheelmade, normal type, broken and mended. (S) Clay jar sealing, fragment, with design of rows of animals. | |
| 7587 | (none) | (none) | B17216 | Owl? Unbaked clay. Oblong block with rounded edges. 2 cavities for eyes sockets and in each cavity a cowry shell to represent eye ball. Nose roughly pinched to form a projecting ridge between the eyes. Cavity in top of head 002 in diam. [drawing 1:2] | |
 | 6770 | (none) | 1927,0527.208 | (none) | PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figure of. Traces of white plaster remain. Jackal? |
| 6769 | (none) | (none) | B16274 | PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figure of. Traces of white plaster remain. Jackal? Poor condition. | |
| 6771B | (none) | (none) | B16275A | PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. 4 snakes. Neo-Babylonian. | |
| 6771D | (none) | (none) | B16275B | PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. 4 snakes. Neo-Babylonian. | |
| 6771C | (none) | 1927,0527.222 | (none) | PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. 4 snakes. Neo-Babylonian. | |
| 6771A | (none) | 1927,0527.223 | (none) | PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. 4 snakes. Neo-Babylonian. | |
| 6773 | (none) | (none) | (none) | PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. Traces of white plaster remain. |
| 6902 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pig. Grey frit. Incised horizontal and vertical markings indicate skin. B. |
| 17620 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pottery. Fragment of Al Obaid type. Wild boar. [drawing] |
| 17195 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ram [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 7598A | (none) | (none) | B17088 | Ram's head. Diorite. Blue. Part of nostrils and mouth missing. also, front of neck. Traces of paste eyeballs inlaid in eye sockets. Straight neck through middle of which a hole 15mm in diameter; has been bored thus showing that it was originally an ornamental head standing on a pole and probably not a complete ram. cf. U ._ Gudea period? 2400-2300BC [drawing 1:1] |
| 6832 | (none) | 1927,0527.38 | (none) | Ram. Black diorite. Fragment. Part of one horn alone remains. E. |
| 6792 | 31-43-354 | (none) | (none) | Rams head. Baked clay. White glaze. | |
| 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] |
| 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. |
| 14067 | 31-16-779 | (none) | (none) | Snakes head. Terracotta fragment: body missing. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 6920 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statuette. Bronze? Monkey on pedestal with arms uplifted; hands touching either side of face. B, |
| 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] |
| 6584 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terra cotta dog. B. |