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)
1706 (none) (none) B15594 Cylinder seal. Light brown stone. With traces of archaic design of fishes.
1707 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Stone. Half broken away. With erect animal and human figure.
1708 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Fragment, shell. With traces of design.
1709 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. Hard, light, black stone. Type VI.
1710 (none) (none) (none) Stone Weight. Black stone. Cigar-shaped with 3 strokes incised. Type II.
1713 (none) (none) B15781 Vase. Drab clay; wheelmade. Broken at rim. Waisted form. [drawing 2:5]
1714 (none) (none) (none) Stone Duck weight. Yellow stone. Type VI.
1715 (none) (none) B15717 Frit ornament. Pectoral. Pierced at each end. P. [drawing 1:1]
1716 (none) (none) (none) Frit ornament. Pectoral, like U.1715 but smaller, broken at one end.
1717 (none) (none) (none) Copper arrowhead. Tang broken off. The head round in section. [drawing]
1718 (none) (none) B15610 Fragment of shaft (top only) of bitumen paste(?); round at top, hexagonally grooved below. [drawing 2:5]
1719 (none) (none) (none) Jar. Brown clay; wheelmade. Type CXIX.
1721 (none) (none) B15631 Figurine. Red clay; moulded. Bearded figure with horned headdress, holding emblems. Found with cylinder seal U.1720. P.
1723 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine. Drab clay: moulded. Nude female figure, with necklace.
1724 (none) (none) B15645 Standing bearded god. P.
1727 (none) (none) (none) Black stone, of irregular shape, broken, probably part of a gate socket. On a smoothed surface is a 8 line inscription of Bur-Sin, king of Ur, recording his building of a ge-par for the goddess Nin-gal.
1728 (none) (none) B15640 Terracotta relief. 2 figures (intact). Left bearded god with long flounced dress, holds scepter (?) in right hand; full face; left hand across chest; right goddess with tall horned crown, flounced skirt and shawl, over left shoulder, left hand across chest, right hand on shoulder of male figure: full face. The plaque stands upright on a slightly hollow base. P.
1729 (none) (none) B15668 Terracotta figurine. Fragment of lower part, from waist to ankles, of nude female figure, normal flat and wide-hipped type. P. [drawing]
1730 (none) (none) B15665 Terracotta relief. Broken. Nude female figure, full face, right hand below breasts, left hand raised (cf. No.U.1346) head and feet missing. P. [drawing]
1732 (none) (none) B15691 Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Lower part only, from waist of seated female(?) figure; no details of dress, etc, except that the skirt was flounced. P.
1733 (none) (none) B15589 Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Very scratchily engraved on one side only with design of 2 men fighting a lion. P. [drawing]
1734 (none) (none) B15590 Cylinder seal. grey stone. Broken. Upper part only of introduction scene with crescent moon in front of god. P.
1735 (none) (none) B15768 Bowl. Light red clay with creamy slip. P. [drawing 1:1]
1737 (none) (none) B15772 Vase. Miniature. Light pinkish ware. P. [drawing 1:1]
1738 (none) (none) B15775 Miniature vase. Spouted. Handmade and very rough: light drab clay. P. [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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Sibling Locations

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