Context Title: Ur Hinterland     
Context Name (Publication): Ur Hinterland     
Context Description: This term describes the area around Ur. It includes the sites surrounding Ur from where objects were brought in by the workers.      

Objects: Ur Hinterland Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
833 (none) (none) (none) Clay Pot of red clay with creamy engobbage. Rim gone and edge ground down. Type C, but with no foot, flat bottomed. Found with stone vases and beads.
2784 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Buff ware with round base and pronounced shoulders. Type CXLVII =RC.41 (not p)
894 (none) (none) B15380 Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LVII, but squatter. Not p.
2540 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Greenish drab ware. Type CXXII =RC.83 (not p)
2848 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Handmade miniature of reddish drab ware. Sketch pattern 1:1 [drawing 1:1]
3128 (none) 1927,1003.138 (none) Clay pot. Head made of drab ware with scalloped shoulders. Sketch pattern 1:2. Type as U.1036. [drawing 1:2]
2723 (none) 1927,1003.119 (none) Clay pot. Miniature, of wheel-made buff ware. Lip broken. Type CXXXV = RC.131 =P108b
831 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. of drab clay, wheelmade. Type CIII. Found with stone vases and beads.
829 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. of drab-clay, wheelmade. Type CI. Found with stone vases, etc. [drawing]
832 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. of reddish clay, creamy engobbage. All top part broken away and much of surface gone. Type C. Found with stone vases.
2541 29-174-10 (none) (none) Clay pot. Pinkish drab clay, with broken mouth. Type CXXIII.
2633 (none) 1927,1003.137 (none) Clay pot. Pinkish drab ware. Handmade. Type CXXVM. (not p)
893 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Reddish clay with drab engobbage. Wheelmade. Type LVII. =RC.75. not P.
2664 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Reddish vase, miniature, handmade. [drawing 1:1]
2786 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Reddish ware with wide mouth and rounded base. Type CXI =RC.11 (not p)
17186 31-43-353 (none) (none) Clay ram's head. Hand modelled, the fleece done in applique (snowman technique). [drawing]
997 (none) (none) (none) Clay Rattle of Greenish white clay. Pierced across, rim double and scalloped. [drawing]
6864 (none) 1927,0527.249 (none) Clay rattle. Common type. Nobbed decoration round rims. E.
17604 (none) 1932,1008.243 (none) Clay relief (chair-back). Male and female figure. [Drawing 1:1]
1310 (none) 1924,0920.87 (none) Clay relief of 2 seated figures, mother (left) and daughter (rt). The mother holds a vessel before her breast with her left hand.
1301 (none) (none) (none) Clay relief of a bearded god, with 3-horned headdress, holding over his shoulders a mace in right hand and an axe in left.
1308 (none) 1924,0920.66 (none) Clay relief showing a pair of seated figures, male (left) and female (right) embracing each other with one arm. The man holds in his other hand a kid or lamb and the woman a hanging bag.
1309 (none) (none) (none) Clay relief, broken, showing two embracing figures as in preceding number, save that here the figures are standing, and seem to carry nothing. Much worn.
1651 (none) (none) B15696 Clay relief. fragment of, from back of chair (?) Two female figures, facing each other, with emblems between. P.
845 31-16-908 (none) (none) Clay relief. Fragment, lower part only on a chair, a woman, preserved from the waist downwards, in elaborately flounced skirt. One peg survives behind for propping up the figure. [drawing 1:1]

Media: Ur Hinterland Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (none)
Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods 1955 Woolley, L. (none)
UPM Field Photo numbers UPM Field Photo numbers (none) (none) (none)
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