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)
15732 (none) 1930,1213.327 (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female wearing voluminous wig, done in 5 big bundles of curls one on top of head and 2 on either side. 4 necklaces.
14453 (none) 1930,1213.307 (none) Brick. Made of Jus mixed with gravel. Rectangular & flat on top.
13767 (none) 1930,1213.257 (none) Stone bowl. Diorite, dark grey. JN24. [Type] XIX (RC15a) [drawing]
15661 (none) 1930,1213.171 (none) Vase. Fragment. Alabaster. Part of 2 lines of dedication to a god NE...(possibley Ne-Dar??) writing irregular and probably very archaic. HC.21
15801 (none) 1930,0012.13 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Fragment. Inscribed.
12683 (none) 1929,1017.587 (none) Copper steelyard [leg of a stool has been crossed out]. Top missing? Square in section. [drawing 1:5]
12687 (none) 1929,1017.457 (none) Copper crescent. Miniature. [drawing 1:1]
12631 (none) 1929,1017.326 (none) [A] Beads. A motley collection including: rock crystal balls, hematite balls, shell and (Chrysoprase?) [chalcedony] bugles (broken), [B.1-.3] 2 unpierced steatite cylinders (for seals). 1 - unpierced marble cylinder (ditto) and [C] fragment of an obsidian mace head. (truncated pear shaped).
12763 (none) 1928,1010.812 (none) Clay figurine. Moulded. Fragment of female figure. [drawing 1:1]
12497 (none) 1928,1010.809 (none) Clay model bed. With string or reed mattress - no head. (broken into 2).
7898 (none) 1928,1010.243 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene to seated Nannar. Minor deity leads votary by the hand. Criss-cross markings. IIIrd Ur Dynasty.
7690 (none) 1928,1009.57 (none) Flat seal. Pyramidal. 5 round cavities on flat side [drawing of pattern]
7683 (none) 1928,1009.56 (none) Flat seal. Rectangular base with rounded corners. Half cylinder pierced superimposed. Steatite. Mottled grey. Inscribed. Powerful bull=like animal with head bent downwards. In style of Mohenjo Daro seals.
7632 (none) 1928,1009.54 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Rampant lion followed by 2 rampant rams? Between the rams a standing figure, and behind the lion a palm tree.
7914 (none) 1928,1009.474 (none) Terracotta dog? Black lines painted down back and sides. Traces of harness? Projecting ridge over head and top of back and horizontal band round top of tail. Horizontal ridges below neck running across back and beneath belly. [drawing 1:1]
7676 (none) 1928,1009.466 (none) Terracotta plaque. Fragment. Top portion missing. 2 maile figures clad in short tunics and standing on either side of entrance to shrine? Each grasps the ribbed door post in one hand. [drawing 1:1]
7537 (none) 1928,1009.465 (none) Terracotta plaque. Fragmentary and in poor condition. 2 gods in profile facing one another. God bearded and wearing high headdress, supports an axe? with a curved handle, head of axe resting on left shoulder left forearm parallel with ground. God has a very pronounced Jewish nose. Upper part of goddess fragmentary, both wear flounced kaunakes skirt, left shoulders bare. [drawing 1:1]
8555 (none) 1928,1009.463 (none) Terracotta relief Head missing: male figure, bearded, a dancer right: club in right hand: short skirt to knees. Surface poor. [drawing 1:1]
7640 (none) 1928,1009.43 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed? In the middle a palm tree rising from a font, on either side of the font a snake? head touching the basin. Also, on either side of the font a male figure one hand upraised as if in ceremony. Possibly the curved markings at the side of the font may represent running water or handles fixed at the top and free below. cf. U.7628.
7715 (none) 1928,1009.4 (none) Brick. Siniddinam, inscription on edge = U.3115 (some variants?), incomplete and without showing the 2 crescents of U.3115. HC.15.
7704 (none) 1928,1009.3 (none) Brick. Bur-Sin. Concerning Ki-en-nu-ga Uri^ki-ma = Watch house of Uri (inscription on edge). HC.6.
7553 (none) 1928,1009.16 (none) Cylinder seal. Frit. Grey. Stag, 2 stars, upright pole? Spear sticking vertically in ground. Persian.
7594 (none) 1928,1009.145 (none) Amulet. Ram's head. Shell. White. [drawing 1:1]
7558 (none) 1928,1009.144 (none) Amulet. Ram's head. Shell. White. [drawing 1:1]
2501 (none) 1927,1003.8 (none) Inscribed tablet. Brown limestone. Fragment. Incomplete Semitic text. Obverse: 7 lines. Reverse: weather worn. Ink-drawing. Neo-Babylonian.

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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