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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)
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.
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.
16190 31-43-8 (none) (none) Amulet. Shell. Flattened double conoid. Engraved with design of snaked(?)
16964 31-43-403 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude female with hands to breasts. Grotesque. (A) broken away at thighs. [drawing 1:1]
16969A 31-43-409 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Draped female figure (grotesque face) Type III, e.2 (or variant of this type?) (A) Broken away at waist.
16936 31-43-395 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Draped female figure, standing, with hands to breasts: elaborate coiffure but no head ornaments. (A) complete and in good condition. [drawing 1:1]
16942 31-43-397 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Draped female figure standing with hands clasped below breasts plain chiton. (A) Broken away above ankles; poor cast and face all gone. [drawing]
16943A 31-43-410 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Goddess standing with hands to breast and wearing long flounced dress. Figure grotesquely elongated. (A) Head and feet missing. [drawing]
16495A 31-43-415 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Seated female figure with flounced skirt, nursing a child. On either side snakes. [drawing] (A) Complete, fair impression. (B) Complete, similar but from a slightly smaller mould.
16916 31-43-418 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Goddess or woman. Nude(?) with hands clasped below breast : on background, crescent moons and stars. A) fragment broken away at waist. [drawing 1:1]
16909 31-43-447 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Man wearing kilt, advancing right over rough ground. (A) Fragment from waist upwards missing: good bold work. [drawing 1:1]
16468 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta Figurine. Bearded Man (A) Broken at waist. [drawing 1:1]
16919 31-43-443 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Bearded man standing, full face: right hand to breast, left hand by side: he wears cloak and skirted garment. (poor condition, destroyed by salt.) Fragment, feet missing. [drawing 1:1]
16487A 31-43-455 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Bearded god, draped. Standing on an animal(?) [drawing 1:1] (A) Animal missing poor worn impression. (B) Similar figure, but from a larger mould, broken off at thighs; (C) Similar, broken away at knees, poor.

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