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)
1538 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Red clay: moulded. Female figure with threefold necklace. Broken off below waist.
1539 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Red-brown clay: moulded. Female figure, nude, with necklace. The feet broken off.
1540A (none) (none) (none) Box. Red drab clay. Adorned with spotted snakes in relief. One end and most of one side broken away, remaining portion broken in 2 pieces (A and B) [drawing: not to scale]
1541A (none) (none) (none) Box lid. Red clay, with boss handle and adorned with snakes. Part missing, the remainder in 2 pieces (A and B). Found with and probably belonging to box U.1540. [drawing: not to scale]
1542 (none) 1924,0920.131 (none) Pot. Red drab clay; handmade. With double neck, and suspension hole, between the 2 openings. [drawing 2:5]
1543 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. White hard stone (marble?). Incised with 3 vertical bands of 3 lines each. Chipped. [drawing 1:1]
1544 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Standing deity (Marduk) and seated deity with altar between and tree at back.
1545 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black stone. With figures faintly distinguishable.
1546 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White stone. Human figure and lion(?)
1547 (none) (none) (none) Stone Duck Weight. White limestone. (Weathered0 Type VI
1548 (none) (none) (none) Weight (?) of white stone or marble; elongated oval in shape; pierced horizontally through greatest breadth. Type II
1549 (none) 1935,0113.43 (none) Relief. Small fragment. Red clay; moulded. Including female head and breast and part of another figure.
1550 (none) 1924,0920.205 (none) Roughly fashioned human hand, with fingers. Dark grey stone. [drawing 2:5]
1551A (none) 1924,0920.103 (none) Mould. Fragment, waist downwards only. Yellow clay. Female figure, nude, with object at right hand.
1552 (none) 1924,0920.60 (none) Figurine. Green clay: moulded. Bearded figure in long robe, with low headdress and collar.
1553 (none) (none) B15663 Figurine. Drab clay: moulded. Female figure, nude, with 4-strand necklace; feet broken off. P.
1554 (none) 1924,0920.117 (none) Relief. Fragment from bedstead. Red drab clay; moulded. 2 birds facing each other with stylized fish(?) between them.
1555 (none) 1924,0920.51 (none) Amulet. Hematite. Recumbant cat; pierced for suspension, with holes for inlay eyes. [drawing 1:1]
1556 (none) (none) (none) Arrow sharpener. grey stone. Irregular shape, polished on 2 sides. [drawing 1:5]
1557 (none) (none) B15758 Bronze ring. Plain circle. P.
1558 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Cross. White chert. Perhaps originally glazed; pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1561 (none) 1924,0920.251 (none) Base of baked clay cone, with (originally) several narrow columns of inscription of which the first is preserved intact. Inscription of Enannatum I, governor of Lagash, referring to his work in connection with an IB-GAL of the goddess Quanna.
1562 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Reddish clay. Roughly modeled human figure, much weathered. [drawing 1:1]
1565 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Drab clay; moulded. Head broken off. Female figure in flounced dress, sitting on chair, in profile. Like U.1375.
1566 (none) (none) B15651 Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only. Drab clay: moulded. Female(?) figure with headdress and garment on left shoulder, the right arm raised. P.

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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