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)
17350 (none) (none) (none) Box lid. Terracotta. Top decorated with a coiled serpent in relief bossin center.
17351 (none) 1931,1010.517 (none) Box lid. Terracotta. Top decorated with a serpent in relief. Round boss in center.
1703 (none) (none) (none) Box-lid. Fragment, with boss handle and spotted snake decoration. [drawing 1:4]
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]
1540B (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]
7823 (none) (none) (none) Brick not identified about 26 lines.
7796 (none) (none) (none) Brick Siniddinam inscription, and marked [drawing of two crescents] = U3115, the only other example?
2880C (none) (none) B16536 Brick of Dungi. "Dun-gi, mighty hero, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad, E-har-sag, his beloved house, has built." H.C.
13003 (none) (none) (none) Brick of Nam-Mah-Ni. New. HC 122.
3374 (none) (none) (none) Brick of Warad-Sin, recording his cutting of the canal called Nannar-hul.
14452 (none) (none) (none) Brick. Made of Jus mixed with gravel rectangular & flat on top.
14453 (none) 1930,1213.307 (none) Brick. Made of Jus mixed with gravel. Rectangular & flat on top.
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.
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.
18250 (none) (none) (none) Bronze (?) spatula. Not RC type [drawing]
1660 (none) (none) (none) Bronze arrowhead. Three-flanged type, imperfect, shaft missing. The type is Neo-Babylonian, but may be earlier also. [drawing]
6063E (none) (none) (none) Bronze arrowheads. 3 petal shaped grooves running to a point.
409 (none) (none) (none) Bronze fibula. Broken. Poor condition. 9th-5th cent BC type. [drawing 1:1]
18316 (none) (none) (none) Bronze figurine of a seated dog. [drawing 1:1]
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.
1429 (none) (none) (none) Bronze implement. Spoon shaped. P. [drawing]
1428 (none) (none) (none) Bronze implement. With edge at rounded end. [drawing 1:1]
1650 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin, pierced below head. Point broken off. [drawing]
1627 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. With round head; square in section; pierced just below head. Point broken off. [drawing 1:1]
1427 (none) (none) (none) Bronze ring

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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