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There are 40 objects for which Shape_description contains → head
13.10.28 Seated female figurine of Kourotrophos holding child on lap, with raised head. Seated on chair with flat back.
13.10.30 Male head, with oval eyes and marked smile.
13.10.31 Male head with oval eyes and slight smile.
13.10.32 Female head with prominent ears, oval eyes and slight smile.
13.10.33 Female head, broken at neck, with oval eyes, prominent ears and slight smile.
13.10.34 Round male head with oval eyes, flat nose and slight smile.
13.10.35 Rectangular male head with flat back. Round eyes, flat nose and no smile.
13.10.37 Fragment of female (?), handmade head, with distinctive pointed nose.
13.10.38 Female (?) handmade head wearing a fillet. Pointed distintive nose.
14.9.119 Female head, appearing to wear sakkos, but now broken at back with a row of curls at the front.
2004.10.2 Bull's head rhyton
2004.5.1 Frontal head of Medusa.
2005.9.2 Head of woman with veiled head (veil over bunched-up hair).
2005.9.3 Head
2006.12.126 Fragment of figurine? heavily worn, but head shape visible
2007.4.94 Axe head like shape, could be broken off handle
2019.5.1 This bronze sculpted head shows the mature Percy Ure, University College Reading’s first Professor of Classics (from 1911), as he appeared in the 1940s.
23.11.31NNNN Single fragment consisting of the head and shoulders of a figure facing right. Wearing a large knobbed headdress which is decorated with tall vertical loops with a central line, over long styled hair
23.11.31ZZ Female facing right, wearing a long skirt marked with horizontal bands. The straight line of the back projects above the head. One arm is raised in front of the body, and the other is held at waist level.
29.11.13 Tortoise with slight protrusion for head and four triangular protrusions at the bottom for legs. Back divided into slight humps to resemble shell
34.10.26 Fragment of head and neck of large figuring (female). Inside is completely hollow.
47.2.30 Cylindrical, wheelmade with moulded head and handmade arms. Holds offering (bird?) in arms, although damaged so identification uncertain.
50.4.22 The bowl is a variant of Hoffmann's shape III (see H. Hoffmann, Tarentine Rhyta [Mainz 1966] 2) but the bowl is unusually aligned with the animal head. The Reading example corresponds to Hoffmann's 'main group' of Tarentine ram's-head rhyta, and particularly to his group E, which is 'the first wholly naturalistic representation of the ram-head', which he ascribes to the 'hand of Coroplast Beta'
50.4.4 Female mask (hollowed at back), with gaping mouth, hollowed eyes, hair arranged in thick ridges, at side of head and above brow (fringe).
57.3.11 Fragment of a female head from large figurine, hollow inside.
57.3.12 Head and part of body with right arm and hand of Atthis figurine, holding pan-pipes. He wears a Phrygian cap with long ear-pieces, long-sleeved tunic, and cloak.
57.3.14 Head of Atthis wearing a Phrygian cap, with top of cap bent over to left.
59.2.7 Mummified head of a cat in a glass jar. Nearly cylindrical jar, tapering to base; wide mouth with straight sides.
67.6.1 A plaster cast head of a Lapith from a metope (South 6) of the Parthenon.Broken off at the middle of the neck; the face bears a gouge on the left cheek and most of the nose is broken off.
67.6.2 A plaster cast head of of a Kore from the Acropolis Museum, Athens, c.500 B.C.E.
E.13.5 8 stalks of various lengths, one with remains of dried flower head.
E.23.14 Slate palette, flat and smooth in the shape of a birds head (?). More recognisable in the shape of a 'boomerang'. The palette thins towards the edges. Hole in the arc for suspension. Edges are not sharp but curved.
E.62.17 Stone scarab. The beetle is sat on a flat base. The upper body is flat. The antenna and 'head' of the beetle are also detailed.
E.63.15 The god Horus seated, with plaited side lock and finger on his chin. The figure is completely naked. A uraeus adorns the head. The feet of the figure are attached to a solid, square copper base.
L.2016.3.31 Ceramic figure of a camel, with raised head and straight posture. He is slightly craning his straightened head upwards, so that his broad neck is a little bent backwards. His eyes appear to be triangular but the iris is round. The mouth is slightly open. The saddle is just schematically depicted with a broad band surrounding the humps, both slightly tapering; the back hump is bent to the left, the front hump to the right. The tail leads down closed to his left leg. His legs are long and thin. There is a hole at the bottom of his rounded belly.
L.2016.3.32 Small, relatively heavy metal horn; hollow inside. Moulded bulges line up along the curved body, probably to sketch the natural form, and lead to the rounded tip. Four holes surround the upper part of the horn (actually the end attached to the head). The horn ends with a flat rim.
L.2018.4.3 Memnon stands in the rigid posture of some Archaic Greek statues, with one leg slightly advanced.Stanford has depicted him arms missing, as if broken off. The small, square base on which he is positioned interrupts his legs just below the knee. Thus he evokes ancient sculpture as it so often reaches us: fractured, incomplete, and part buried. Yet he retains the lower half of his head, facing sideways. Part of his helmet is discernible, as are a stylised lock of hair and the inscrutable line of his mouth. Carved stone sculpture of Memnon, naked, carved with the bottom half of the head, torso, and legs to the knees. Left arm absent from shoulder and right arm missing from just below the elbow. Legs on a plinth with MEMNON carved into it.
REDMG:1935.87.35 Female head with melon coiffure, broken off a stone statuette of a woman.
REDMG:1953.25.104 Male head, with oval eyes, large nose and faint smile.
REDMG:1953.25.86 Fragment. Head of woman. Hair centrally parted, waves and ringlets hanging over and below ears. Stephane and veil. Neck with Venus rings. Large eyes.
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