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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 12701M | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] 1) Copper pin. L. 250mm with lapis ball head and gold caps. Type V B. [B] 2) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. L. 20mm, D. 11mm. Two heroes (one wearing feathered headdress) and rampant animals. [C] 3) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli L. 30mm, D. 7mm. Two registers. Above and below: rampant animals. [D] 4) Beads forming a necklace of 3 strings: gold, lapis and carnelian barrels. [E] 5) Beads. Long lentoids of gold and lapis and in center [M] a small gold frog amulet L. 10mm, W. 10mm. [F-G] 6) Gold earrings. A pair. Small 1 1/2 coils. Lunate. [H-I] 7) Two bracelets. [H] One plain silver, the [I] other plain copper. [J] 8) Stone bowl. Calcite. Greyish. Nearly hemispherical. [Type] IX. [K] 9) Stone vase. White calcite [Type] LVI. [L] 10) Silver finger (?) ring. Very small. 1 1/2 coils. |
| 12704J | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Stone vase. White calcite. Type same as U.12277 [Type] LII. [B] (2) Stone vase. White calcite. Spill type. [drawing 1:5] [C] (3) Stone bowl grey steatite. Broken but complete [Type] LXXXVI. [D] (4) Stone bowl. White calcite. [Type] LIII. [drawing 2:5] [E] (5) Three silver finger rings: corroded together - only one intact - consisting of 3 1/2 coils of fine wire. [F] (6) Remains of copper pin with fluted lapis ball head. Type V B. [G] (7) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers. Above: spread eagles and rampant gazelles (?). Below: Gazelles. [H] (8) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Rampant lions crossed and gazelles. [I] (9) Beads. Lapis bugles and double conoids. Carnelian bugles and rings and some silver wire pendants much decayed. See field note. The silver spiral pendants had 4 circles of spiral coils made out of a single strip of wire thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing] [J] Also in the necklace a minute lapis lazuli frog amulet. [K] Round forehead thin gold ribbon. [drawing] [L] Large double conoid carnelian beads and a few bugles and one calcite bead shaped thus [reference to drawing], diamond shaped in section. | |
| 12706E | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Copper pin. Type V B with lapis ball head. Badly broken. [B] (2) Cylinder seal, lapis lazuli. 2 registers. Men fighting rampant animals. [C] (3) Copper bowl. Hemispherical [Type] III. [D] (4) Beads. Lapis and carnelian lentoids, lapis barrels and double conoids, carnelian rings, silver balls, square chalcedony (diamond shaped in section) calcite bead similar in type. [E] (5) Amulet in shape of a silver frog. [F] ( 6) Silver ear (?) ring 2 1/2 spiral wire coils. |
| 1271 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tortoise. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. Under side plain. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1272 | (none) | (none) | B15720 | Clay Frog. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. (small) P. [drawing] | |
| 1273 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Frog. Drab clay. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1274 | (none) | (none) | B15719 | Clay Frog. Light drab clay. With traces of green pigment (glaze?) pierced for suspension. Like U.1273. P. | |
| 12744 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Puzuzu amulet. Shell? Miniature. Normal type. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1275 | (none) | 1924,0920.175 | (none) | Clay Frog. Light drab clay (with traces of green glaze underneath) pierced for suspension. Like U.1273 [drawing 1:1] |
| 1276 | (none) | 1924,0920.174 | (none) | Clay frog. Drab clay. Pierced for suspension. (broken) [drawing 1:1] |
| 1277 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. Light clay. Pierced horizontally for suspension. (head missing) [drawing 1:1] |
| 1278 | (none) | 1924,0920.177 | (none) | Clay duck. Light clay. Pierced horizontally for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1279 | (none) | (none) | B15721 | Clay duck. Like U.1278. P. | |
| 12797 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bes amulet. Glazed frit. |
| 1280 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. Light. Clay. Pierced vertically for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1281 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. Like U.1280 |
| 1282 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. Like U.1280 |
| 1283 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay duck. (head missing) Like U.1280. |
| 1284 | (none) | 1924,0920.50 | (none) | Stone Janus-head. Red stone. Beardless, flat-featured face, (pierced vertically for suspension) [drawing 1:1] |
| 1285 | (none) | (none) | B15591 | Stone amulet. (?) Black stone, polished. Conventionalized representation of two heads (possibly rams?) and bodied, shoulder to shoulder, the bodies adorned with incised lines - the back plain. (pierced vertically for suspension) [drawing 1:1] | |
| 132 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fr. of (amulet? or) inlay made of frit, originally green glazed. The lower part of a uraeus snake with wings low down: curious type. [drawing 1:1] |
| 13507 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Frog. Amulet. Lapis lazuli. Miniature. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1359 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell amulet. In form of a left hand; pierced at wrist for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
| 13731 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Black stone. In form of a dog. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1425 | (none) | (none) | B15595 | Figurine. Upper part of small -silver- steatite figurine of a bearded and corpulent man holding left hand to breasts: right arm and legs missing. A small -prong- socket on top of the head served for suspension as a charm. |
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