Moulds
This category includes objects used to create other objects.
This category includes objects used to create other objects. They are usually made of stone or clay to form clay or metal objects.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 16914 | 31-43-377 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta Mould. For making a figurine or relief of nude female with hands clasped below breasts: small grotesque head, heavy necklace: rather like Type III, c.H. |
| 16929A | 31-43-90 | (none) | (none) | Clay mould. (A) For a female head in profile, high relief: head with filletted and braided hair, looking right (in impression): rows of necklaces. Full face, rather pleasing and not like the usual Sumerian type. (B) For a bearded male figure, draped, standing in profile facing left (in impression) with hands clasped on breast. Very fine work, bold and yet delicate, perhaps goldsmiths moulds: the female head is best suited to such technique as gold-working. Brought in together and said to have been found together. | |
| 16929B | 31-43-89 | (none) | (none) | Clay mould. (A) For a female head in profile, high relief: head with filletted and braided hair, looking right (in impression): rows of necklaces. Full face, rather pleasing and not like the usual Sumerian type. (B) For a bearded male figure, draped, standing in profile facing left (in impression) with hands clasped on breast. Very fine work, bold and yet delicate, perhaps goldsmiths moulds: the female head is best suited to such technique as gold-working. Brought in together and said to have been found together. | |
| 16976 | (none) | 1931,1010.369 | (none) | Terracotta mould for making a relief of a seated female figure holding a vase on her knees. | |
| 17426 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta mould. Fragment. For back of a head and hair. |
| 17603 | (none) | 1932,1008.251 | (none) | Clay mould for nude female figure (broken and mended). | |
| 17690 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Mould. Clay. Impression of large bellied, Set-like figure. |
| 17869 | 32-40-316 | (none) | (none) | Jeweller's trial piece (?). Fragment of a four-sided rod of white limestone: on one side a roughly cut intaglio; a small figure of a man copulating with a woman, the latter figure large and grotesque. | |
| 18031 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta mould for moulding figurines. Relief of god and goddess side by side, each wearing a heavily flounced dress reaching to the feet; above, a crescent. |
| 18086 | 32-40-45 | (none) | (none) | Clay mould. For making figurines. Goddess wearing a flat low headdress. Fragment: only the head and ahoulders left. | |
| 18092 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay mould. For making figurines. Apparently - god advancing right but too covered with salt for the design to show. |
| 18206 | 32-40-46 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta mould. For a relief. Standing god, in long robes, holding whip, standing on a beast, perhaps a sirrus. Feet and body of animal broken away. | |
| 18246 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta mould for a standing figure of a draped god, with long flounced skirt. The hands before the beasts, holding a mace. |
| 18359 | (none) | 1933,1013.227 | (none) | Terracotta mould for a small figure, grotesque, naked, full face, with bent knees, urinating. | |
| 18371 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay mould for making Puzuzu-head glazed beads: on the side of it an inscription. |
| 18565 | 33-35-64 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta mould. For making a figurine of a nude standing female figure (entirely encrusted with salt) | |
| 18863A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] Bead moulds. Clay: balls of clay: on one side the impression for half of a bead and the slit for the wire on which it was made. There are four round ball beads one for a fluted cylindrical. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 18863B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] Bead moulds. Clay: balls of clay: on one side the impression for half of a bead and the slit for the wire on which it was made. There are four round ball beads one for a fluted cylindrical. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 18863C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] Bead moulds. Clay: balls of clay: on one side the impression for half of a bead and the slit for the wire on which it was made. There are four round ball beads one for a fluted cylindrical. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 18863D | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] Bead moulds. Clay: balls of clay: on one side the impression for half of a bead and the slit for the wire on which it was made. There are four round ball beads one for a fluted cylindrical. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 2718 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Figurine mould. Fragmentary: of reddish ware, showing moulding for legs 4 feet. |
| 2975 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Jeweller's mould. Double mould of black stone. [drawing 1:1] |
| 3246 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone mould. For beads etc. in text: Neo-Babylonian period(14) |
| 3340 | (none) | 1927,1003.79 | (none) | Half-bead mould. Limestone, for bead with scarab design. In text: Neo-Babylonian period (14). [Additional note on back regarding dinner plans] [drawing 1:1] | |
| 3350 | 31-16-940 | (none) | (none) | Fragment of mould for figurine. Limestone: showing flounced skirt of draped figure. |