Animal/Human Shaped
This category includes small animal or human representations pierced for hanging.
Animal/human pendants are more than likely amulets, but have been named based on their shape rather than their possible function. The majority of the human shaped pendants are Humbaba or Pazuzu. The animals come in a variety of forms from birds to bulls.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 2803 | (none) | 1927,1003.246 | (none) | Shell mask. Grotesque and pierced for suspension: mask flaked away. [drawing 1:1] |
| 3157 | (none) | 1927,1003.250 | (none) | Model hand. Pinkish stone, pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 2822 | (none) | 1927,1003.251 | (none) | Copper frog. Miniature. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 2918 | (none) | 1927,1003.253 | (none) | Lapis lazuli bull. Couchant with head turned. Pierced in three places for suspension. |
| 7910 | (none) | 1928,1009.138 | (none) | Frog amulet. Lapis lazuli. [drawing 1:1][CARD MISLABELED U.7940B][Arabic notes on back of card] [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 7558 | (none) | 1928,1009.144 | (none) | Amulet. Ram's head. Shell. White. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7594 | (none) | 1928,1009.145 | (none) | Amulet. Ram's head. Shell. White. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8033 | (none) | 1928,1009.396 | (none) | Shell bull. Very delicately & boldly carved in white shell. A figure of a bull, facing rt, in exactly the position of the 'Ubaid copper frieze bulls, with the left fore leg bent at the knee and planted on the ground as if the animal were about to rise; the body in profile, the head turned to the front. | |
| 10946 | (none) | 1928,1010.103 | (none) | Amulet. Lapis. A reclining calf. The head turned right round across the right flank: fine strong work. Found with U.10947 by the right shoulder. [drawing 1:1] |
| 10801A | (none) | 1928,1010.291 | (none) | Tomb Group A. Beads : carnelian and lapis with good fly ornament : see Field notes B. Beads : lapis double conoids and a few silver C. Short lengths of thin gold ribbon each folded up into a little wad weights in grains, 16, 16, 21, 16, 16, 12, 11 1/2, 12 1/2, 7, 10, 10, D. Silver wire spiral coil ear-ring E. Plain silver wire bracelet |
| 10943 | (none) | 1928,1010.86 | (none) | Gold Amulet. In form of 2 goats seated back to back. The goat on the right is in front, but the treatment of the body is rather summary: it is worked alike back and front. Found on the right arm near the elbow. [drawing 1:1] |
| 10944A | (none) | 1928,1010.87 | (none) | [A-B] Gold Amulets two in the form of fish. (gold over a bitumen core) the thread went through the mouth and one gill. Found with U.10943, 10945. [drawing 1:1] |
| 10944B | (none) | 1928,1010.87 | (none) | [A-B] Gold Amulets two in the form of fish. (gold over a bitumen core) the thread went through the mouth and one gill. Found with U.10943, 10945. [drawing 1:1] |
| 10945 | (none) | 1928,1010.89 | (none) | Fish Amulet. Lapis. Found with U.10943, 10944. [drawing 1:1] |
| 12469 | (none) | 1929,1017.4 | (none) | Gold amulet. In the form of a standing goat, its head slightly turned over the left shoulder (a hole runs from right shoulder to the tail) [drawing] |
| 12080 | (none) | 1929,1017.430 | (none) | Frog Amulet. Minute. Lapis lazuli. [drawing 1:1] |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.68 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.69 | (none) | (none) |
| 14944 | (none) | 1930,1213.152 | (none) | Amulet. Pink stone. A phallus. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15800 | (none) | 1930,1213.525 | (none) | Puzuzu head. Frit. |
| 17070C | (none) | 1931,1010.201 | (none) | Frog amulets 6 [one miniature] [A-F]. Frit. Two glazed yellow. Glazed yellow. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17070D | (none) | 1931,1010.202 | (none) | Frog amulets 6 [one miniature] [A-F]. Frit. Two glazed yellow. Glazed yellow. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17071C | (none) | 1931,1010.204 | (none) | Frit amulets. [A] A pair of fish (A) and (B) [not reference to multiple objects] tails missing. [drawing 1:1] [B] A tortoise. [C] A pair of ducks. [D] A bead pendant. [E] A monkey (head missing). [F] Rosettes. [Drawing 1:1] |
| 17109 | (none) | 1931,1010.84 | (none) | Amulet. Shell in form of a human hand [drawing 1:1] |
| 17115 | (none) | 1931,1010.85 | (none) | Amulet. Mother-of-pearl. In the form of a human hand (thumb broken off) |
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