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)
17115 (none) 1931,1010.85 (none) Amulet. Mother-of-pearl. In the form of a human hand (thumb broken off)
17109 (none) 1931,1010.84 (none) Amulet. Shell in form of a human hand [drawing 1:1]
17084 (none) 1931,1010.539 (none) Vase. Baked clay. With 4 hug handles and incised decoration. Type 1)LXVIII. =L.
17221 19311010.54 1931,1010.535 (none) Clay vessel. Fragment. Inscribed Ur-^d Iskur, under the following symbol.
16289 (none) 1931,1010.528 (none) Miniature clay vase. The body decorated with the figure of a great grotesque man. [drawing 1:1]
17351 (none) 1931,1010.517 (none) Box lid. Terracotta. Top decorated with a serpent in relief. Round boss in center.
17191B (none) 1931,1010.493 (none) Clay birds. Roughly modelled by hand. Several similar. [drawing]
17187 (none) 1931,1010.482 (none) Clay figure of animal entirely covered with small punctured circles. [drawing]
16111 (none) 1931,1010.479 (none) Terracotta figurine. Painted. Fragment. Archaic. [drawing 1:1]
16442C (none) 1931,1010.460 (none) Terracotta Figurines. Moulded. Female figure, nude. Type III,e.1. (A) Broken away at knees and in bad condition; (B) Broken away at knees; (C) complete, same figure but from a different mould. Face rubbed all away. (D) Broken away at knees; (E) Feet missing, poor and damaged impression; (F) Head and legs below knees missing.
16489 (none) 1931,1010.458 (none) Terracotta Mask. Puzuzu head, with much lines detail. Complete and in good condition. Type XIV, 10 [drawing 1:1]
16939E (none) 1931,1010.457 (none) Terracotta relief of nude female with hands below breasts. (A) Complete. (B) Broken but complete except for feet; (C) Broken away at knees, poor cast. (D) Broken away at knees, poor cast; (E) Complete, the legs cut apart after moulding (F) Complete; (G) Mould taken only to navel and the cast then rounded off (probably same mould poor); (H) Complete (as above). All the above are of very lightly fired clay, red or yellowish grey, and form a group distinct from nearly all the other terracottas. They might be modern casts from an ancient mould. Type III c.Y
17129 (none) 1931,1010.456 (none) Terracotta relieg of god and goddess advancing full front each with an arm about the other. They both wear long dresses with pleated flounces. (A) Fragment, broken off across the middle. [drawing 1:1]
16438M (none) 1931,1010.455 (none) Terracotta Figurines: Female figure, nude, Type III, c.x. (as 1); (A) Fragment from hips up; (B) Complete, standing on base, much damaged by salt; (C) Fragment head and feet missing.; (D) Fragment head missing; (E) Fragment head and legs below knees missing; (F) Fragment from hads upwards (1371); (G)Broken away above ankles: most resembles No. 3 (1371) (H) complete down to knees (no more moulded than this); (J) Damaged & missing below hands, face rubbed, poor; (K) Complete: fair condition. (L) Fragment: the left arm and the body below the hands missing. (M) Complete, from miniature mould, poor impression.
17128A (none) 1931,1010.454 (none) Terracotta relief of standing god and goddess wearing long dresses with pleated flounces: each with an arm about the other. Full face. Like U. 17127 but from a different mould. (A) Complete.
16438B (none) 1931,1010.453 (none) Terracotta Figurines: Female figure, nude, Type III, c.x. (as 1); (A) Fragment from hips up; (B) Complete, standing on base, much damaged by salt; (C) Fragment head and feet missing.; (D) Fragment head missing; (E) Fragment head and legs below knees missing; (F) Fragment from hands upwards (1371); (G)Broken away above ankles: most resembles No. 3 (1371) (H) complete down to knees (no more moulded than this); (J) Damaged & missing below hands, face rubbed, poor; (K) Complete: fair condition. (L) Fragment: the left arm and the body below the hands missing. (M) Complete, from miniature mould, poor impression.
16493 (none) 1931,1010.452 (none) Terracotta relief. Bearded man draped, carrying a kid. (A) complete. Moderate impression. [drawing 1:1]
17124 (none) 1931,1010.451 (none) Terracotta relief. Two seated goddesses (?) or women, one large and holding a pot to her breast: she wears a large garment with pleasted flounces and is bare-headed: the other beside her is similar but much small. (A) Complete but much worn. (B) [No description] Type Ib.D.
16498F (none) 1931,1010.450 (none) Terracotta relief. Nude woman suckling an infant. Good modelling, high relief. [drawing 1:1] (A) Broken away from waist (as drawn) (B) Broken away at hips and face smashed; from a similar but slightly smaller mould; (C) Head and legs below knees missing: perhaps from a different mould but very similar. (D) Head and feet missing; poor impression, not from the same mould as last, but perhaps identical with (A); (E) Missing from waist downward: (smaller mould); (F) Fragment broken away at hips, poor specimen; (G) Fragment head and legs below knees missing; (H) Complete, good impression, probably from different mould.
16751 (none) 1931,1010.45 (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Unpierced.
16488 (none) 1931,1010.448 (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Unusually large. Freely modeled in good style. (A) Fragment only from navel to knees.
16458A (none) 1931,1010.446 (none) Terracotta Figurine. Seated goddess: Type VI,5. (A) Complete; (B) Complete, worn.
16473 (none) 1931,1010.445 (none) Terracotta Figurine. Female figure. (A) Broken away at thighs, a good impression. [drawing]
17104A (none) 1931,1010.444 (none) Terracotta figurine made from a two-piece mould, front and back = the two have not met and the result is two relifs separated by rough clay. Female figure, standing with right hand to breast and left arm at side. (A) Complete down to knees but left side of face chipped off. Back view is curiously [illegible, looks like chinese or chenise or chevise]. [drawing 1:1]
16939F (none) 1931,1010.443 (none) Terracotta relief of nude female with hands below breasts. (A) Complete. (B) Broken but complete except for feet; (C) Broken away at knees, poor cast. (D) Broken away at knees, poor cast; (E) Complete, the legs cut apart after moulding (F) Complete; (G) Mould taken only to navel and the cast then rounded off (probably same mould poor); (H) Complete (as above). All the above are of very lightly fired clay, red or yellowish grey, and form a group distinct from nearly all the other terracottas. They might be modern casts from an ancient mould. Type III c.Y

Media: Ur Hinterland Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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