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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)
15717 31-16-972 (none) (none) Terracotta Figurine. Statuette of a cat(?)like figure.
15740 31-16-744 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Buffalo(?) head. Neck hollowed, originally decorating a pot(?).
15744 31-16-970 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Animal in the round - otter(?).
15724 31-16-864 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Missing below waist. Wearing wig, large lunate earrings, 4 strings of beads(?) Very poor workmanship.
15725 31-16-865 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Wearing voluminous wig running down to neck represented at sides of head by 5 horizontal bands.
15748 31-16-837 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female supporting baby at breast. head draped.
15736 31-16-916 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. God wearing high horned headdress, long beard descending to waist, long curl falling onto each shoulder, and supporting a pair of maces one at each shoulder. Missing below waist.
15749 31-16-914 (none) (none) Terracotta plaque. 2 figures, full face - in high relief. A bearded male deity and a goddess wearing high horned headdress, earrings? Necklace consisting of 3 strings of beads, and pleated coat which leaves right shoulder exposed. Right arm of goddess rests against left shoulder of god. Fragment: head only of god, goddess missing below waist.
15713 31-16-942 (none) (none) Terracotta plaque. Fragment. Lion in profile. Head missing -curling tail.
15714 31-16-777 (none) (none) Terracotta plaque. Lion in profile. Head missing-curling tail.
15721 31-16-920 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Lower half of warrior. Clad in short coat cut so as to reach top of leg in front and claves at the back. Long ill-proportioned feet with toes running to a point-perhaps a shoe? See 1574
15747 31-16-843 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female wearing wig. Hands clasped below breast. Two large strings of beads round neck.
15712 31-16-776 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded deity, tall and slim, peg-shaped below waist, naturalistic above. Wearing long coat covering one arm and leaving the other exposed. On either side two long snakes. Heads level with head of figure.
14087 31-17-116 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Poor condition. Poor cutting. 2 lions crossed.
13521 31-17-118 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Calcite. White. 2 registers. Imperfect condition. Above: banquet scene, 3 seated figures, two of them sucking drink through a tube the third approached by a standing figure third approached by a standing figure. Below: two rows and a spread eagle.
13711 31-17-15 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. With linear design.
14495 31-17-18 (none) (none) Cylinder seal of white shell. The decoration consists simply of drill-point holes irregularly spaced over the whole surface.
13722 31-17-24 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Translucent white quartzite(?) oval, flat below & rounded above: on the flat base, traces of an animal design mostly done with a drill-point, in dots joined up by rough engraving; the design really unrecognisable now. [drawing 1:1]
16345 31-43-356 (none) (none) Terracotta Chariot. Model. Cab with high back on which are figures in relief. 1 wheel only remains. Back of cab - facing yoke pole - has the figure in relief of a bull god. - bull like from from the waist down, human above. Figure is nude & wears a high conical hat and grasps a vertical pole in both hands. Bust full face, arms and lower half of body in profile. Above the figure is an upper register with a crescent supported by 2 oblique sticks and solar disk similarly supported - both in relief. 2 holes perforated horizontally through top of cap: Hole in front of cab to hold yoke pole 0013 in diam.
16927A (none) 1931,1010.11 (none) Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
16927G 31-43-7 (none) (none) Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
16179 31-43-28 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Green steatite. Presentation scene: enthroned god and two standing figures.
16211 31-43-1 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Pink limestone. In the form of a recumbent calf; on the flat back a rough design of 2 animals done with drill-holes and engraved lines. This is an early Sumerian piece which is found ina Persian period grave, and must have been an antiquity. [drawing 1:1]
16117 31-43-66 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Mauve chalcedony(?) Concial-suspended by copper wire. Roughly engraved with figure of a man. [drawing]
16146 31-43-29 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink steatite. Presentation scene: seated figure and two standing; emblem: pole with a forked top.

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