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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17759 | 32-40-315 | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Frit. Frog. [drawing 1:1] | |
 | 17859 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Puzuzu head black steatite. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17860 | (none) | 1932,1008.188 | (none) | Amulet. Spread eagle of glazed frit (the glaze all gone). [drawing 1:1] |
| 17861 | 32-40-307 | (none) | (none) | Head of Puzuzu type Lapis lazuli roughly carved pierced for threading [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17863 | 32-40-309 | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Puzuzu head. Glazed frit (glaze all decayed. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17870 | 32-40-310 | (none) | (none) | Amulet. White shell. In the form of a flying bird (one wing missing) [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17918 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Shell. Duck. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18131C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A.1-.3] Beads. A small collection. Hematite tubular and date shaped, carnelian balls and date shaped, jasper date shaped, glazed frit tubular, hematite rings, lapis date shaped. Also, a [B] black steatite duck-weight pierced for suspension and a [C] small shell lion also pierced. | |
| 18133 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet of glazed frit, bleached white the Egyptian Bes. |
| 18210 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Vulture's head. Mottled dark steatite. The eyes deeply hollowed to receive inlay. The lower side of the head is smoothly finished, with no sign of any attachment to a body: the head might have been used for a weight (?) or, is isolated, as an amulet. Fine bold work. |
| 18231 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Shell. Puzuzu head. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18234 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. White frit (once glazed? But glaze all perished) A seated calf? [drawing] |
| 18245 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Dark grey steatite. Puzuzu head. Good minute work. |
| 18255 | 33-35-166 | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Shell. Puzuzu head. [drawing] | |
| 18269J | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: (A) [A and N] Pair of copper bracelets, penannular, square section with flattened papyrus ends. (B) Bangle of thin copper wire. (C) Copper fibula. [drawing] (D) Copper fibula thus [reference to drawing] pin missing. [drawing] (E) [E-O] 2 copper finger rings. (F) Bronze arrowhead, 3-flanged type. (G) Iron knife blade, straight and slender type. Broken. (H) Iron leaf-shaped blade, broken. (I) [I and P] [I] Bone spindle and [P] glazed whorl. (J) Shale amulet in form of bird. [drawing 1:1] (K) Beads: string of very small yellow glaze ring with 6 puzuzu heads of blue glazed frit and some black and white glass paste balls and one yellow pasted bead. (L) Beads: string of pink and white stone scaraboids, large shell disk, blue glaze puzuzu head, paste scaraboid, decorated, glass rings. (M) Beads: Stone beads, carnelian, sard, marble, limestone, rough. |
| 18290 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Shell. Puzuzu head. |
| 18291 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Translucent green steatite. |
| 18329 | (none) | 1933,1013.89 | (none) | Amulet. Shell in form of an open human hand. |
| 18340 | 33-35-162 | (none) | (none) | Calf's head in dark steatite. The neck pierced horizontally for attachment The eyes hollowed for inlay and a hole for inlay in the forehead. Good archaic work. | |
| 18342 | 33-35-165 | (none) | (none) | Puzuzu head. Dark steatite. With ring for suspension. Coarse work. [drawing] | |
| 18352 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tortoise of grey steatite. L. 23mm |
| 18362 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet, shell a pig (?) pierced vertically through the body. [drawing] |
| 18449 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tortoise [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 18499 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Shell. Fish. (the mouth broken away) [drawing 1:1] |
| 18693A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulets. Shell. In the shape of a human hand. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] (A) The open hand. (B) Clenched hand. |
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