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)
1622 (none) (none) B15803 Bowl. Fine-grained greenish stone. Type VII.
1623 (none) (none) (none) Copper harpoon. Hollow socketed, with chisel point, and barb; complete. [drawing 1:1]
1627 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. With round head; square in section; pierced just below head. Point broken off. [drawing 1:1]
1628 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed with scene of presentation to goddess.
1632 (none) (none) (none) Baked clay cone of Ur-Nammu, top broken away; text records building of a temple to Enlil, and digging of a canal called En-sig-nun. Cf. U.872, U.1595-U.1597
1633 (none) (none) (none) Part of base and stem of baked clay cone of Rim-Sin, king of Larsa, recording his building of a temple to the Moon-god. Duplicate, with small variants, of U.781.
1636 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. With roughly engraved device of introduction ceremony, and inscription of 2 lines. Ur-dub: dumu Ur-d.Kal
1637 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. large bugles and ball beads, frit, originally blue glazed, now bleached white.: 36 in all.
1638 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (32) Small bugle or lentoid beads and balls; once glazed, now bleached white; the former had marbled patterns in different colors.
1640 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (36) Ball beads of carnelian and rock crystal with cat's eye center.
1642 (none) (none) (none) Beads (10) Carnelian, agate, etc., found together.
1643 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Very small gold ball beads, some plain, some fluted; found all together, with a few small lapis and carnelian beads. Sixty strung together, others loose. (purchased)
1645 (none) (none) (none) Ivory pin. With six grooves at head; pierced just below head. [drawing 2:5]
1646 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Clay, with device of eagle, lance, etc.
1647 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Blue stone. Irregularly cylindrical, with no trace of device.
1648 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Clay. Presentation to deity, broken.
1650 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin, pierced below head. Point broken off. [drawing]
1651 (none) (none) B15696 Clay relief. fragment of, from back of chair (?) Two female figures, facing each other, with emblems between. P.
1652 31-16-923 (none) (none) Clay figurine. Drab clay; moulded. Bearded figure with horned headdress and pleated skirt, holding emblems; weathered.
1653 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Fragment, below waist upwards only; drab clay; moulded. Female figure, nude, with low headdress and necklace.
1654 31-16-926 (none) (none) Figurine. Fragment, from shoulder to knees only. Red drab clay; moulded. Figure in profile; much weathered.
1655 (none) (none) (none) Wheel. Clay, with intended edge.
1656 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. Yellowish, mottled stone. [drawing]
1657 (none) (none) (none) Bronze implement or weapon. Square in section, tapering to point at one end, thinned out to chisel-edge at other. Broken in two.
1659 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Light red stone. A four-winged deity fighting a winged antelope: crescent above. Cutting and style appear Kassite.

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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