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)
1741 (none) (none) B15641 Terracotta relief. 2 figures full face side by side; on l, male figure, on rt. female: both wear long skirts. Whole surface of clay flaked off & details of figs lost. P.
1743 (none) (none) B15683 Terracotta relief. Female figure, full face, apparently seated but body and legs in one plane. Hands raised to breasts. Horned high headdress with spiral curls to shoulders, flounced dress with full sleeves. Surface of clay badly flaked. P.
1744 (none) (none) B15634 Terracotta relief. Green clay. Figure of goddess, full face, hands below breasts holding situla-bottles. Mural(?) crown on head above heavily frizzed hair: several necklaces but breasts bare: big cloak with rosettes on shoulders hands concealing arms: from waist, flounced and pleated skirt, rosettes by ears and alongside skirt. P.
1745 (none) (none) B15642 Terracotta relief. Light red clay. Intact. Bearded male figure advancing right. Wears plain brimmed hat, vest and long cloak fringed down front and along bottom edge (which comes to calf) hands to chest, right hand holding throw-stick(?) in background a table with offerings(?) P.
1747 (none) (none) B15693 Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Red clay. Face only of beardless male figure very finely moulded. P.
1748 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Whitish clay. Nude female figure, full face, broken at knees; no detail.
1750 (none) (none) B15715 Miniature goblet. Pinkish white clay. Handmade. [drawing 1:1]
1751 (none) (none) B15767 Vase. Light red clay, creamy engobbage. Handmade. Ornament incised before baking, design of 5 geese in a row and a palm tree. P.
1754 (none) (none) B15686 Clay Figurine. Hand-modeled. Female (?) figure in snowman technique: elaborate applied headdress. Arms broken, but were free; figure broken at waist, part of chest flaked off. P.
1760 (none) (none) B15723 Terracotta figurine hand-modeled. a goat [drawing 1:1] P.
1761 (none) (none) B15707 Terracotta figurine. Pig. 2 rear legs missing, incised on belly. P. 15707 [drawing 1:1]
1762 (none) (none) B15650 Terracotta relief. Red clay. Moulded. Bearded figure, full face. On head, high horned cap (chipped), long curls on shoulder, bull's ears: dress presumably sheepskin queerly treated with lobes in relief: right hand holds mace to shoulder left hand apparently an axe of this type. Broken at waist.
1763 (none) (none) B15682 Terracotta relief. Light greenish clay. Moulded. Female figure, full face, flounced bodice and sleeves. High horned headdress, spiral curls on shoulders: hands raised above breasts.
1764 (none) (none) B15670 Terracotta relief. Fragment. Moulded figure advancing right, long skirt, above which open skirt with fringed edge. Broken at waist.
1765 (none) (none) B15659 Relief. Fragment. Moulded clay. Lower part, from waist down, of nude female figure, full face. P.
1778 (none) (none) B15688 Figurine. Drab clay. Head and shoulders only, with headdress. [drawing 1:1]
1780 (none) (none) B15662 Figurine. Red clay. Female, nude with necklace. [drawing 1:1]
1781 (none) (none) B15684 Clay figurine. Drab clay, head and torso only, with mitre and braided hair. [drawing 1:1]
1782 (none) (none) B15630 Figurine. Buff clay. Bearded male, legs and feet missing. [drawing 1:1]
1783 (none) (none) B15639 Figurines. Red clay. Flounced robes, with raised hands and carrying pots, heads and feet missing. [drawing 1:1]
1784 (none) (none) B15637 Figurine. Drab clay. Male, bearded and mitred bearing maces. Head and torso only. [drawing 1:1]
1785 (none) (none) B15649 Figurine. Red clay. Male. Head and trunk only. Cracks in head and beard. [drawing 1:1]
1786 (none) (none) B15701 Stool. Buff clay, one leg and corner missing. Rush seat. [drawing 1:1]
1787 (none) (none) B15697 Chair back. Red clay, two birds flanking trees. [drawing 1:1]
1788 (none) (none) B15773 Miniature goblet. Red clay, part of lip and side missing. [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

Unknown - Ur