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)
17935G 32-40-108 (none) (none) Celts. [All objects drawn, objects grouped by material description] [A-B] Jasper [drawing 1:1] [C-E] Diorite [drawing 1:1] [F] Basalt [drawing 1:1] [G] Limestone [drawing 1:1]
17935D 32-40-107 (none) (none) Celts. [All objects drawn, objects grouped by material description] [A-B] Jasper [drawing 1:1] [C-E] Diorite [drawing 1:1] [F] Basalt [drawing 1:1] [G] Limestone [drawing 1:1]
17935C 32-40-106 (none) (none) Celts. [All objects drawn, objects grouped by material description] [A-B] Jasper [drawing 1:1] [C-E] Diorite [drawing 1:1] [F] Basalt [drawing 1:1] [G] Limestone [drawing 1:1]
17975L 32-40-100 (none) (none) [A-N] Miniature flints. [drawing 1:1]
16929A 31-43-90 (none) (none) Clay mould. (A) For a female head in profile, high relief: head with filletted and braided hair, looking right (in impression): rows of necklaces. Full face, rather pleasing and not like the usual Sumerian type. (B) For a bearded male figure, draped, standing in profile facing left (in impression) with hands clasped on breast. Very fine work, bold and yet delicate, perhaps goldsmiths moulds: the female head is best suited to such technique as gold-working. Brought in together and said to have been found together.
16618 31-43-9 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Greenish grey steatite. Pyramidal. 2 scorpions.
16929B 31-43-89 (none) (none) Clay mould. (A) For a female head in profile, high relief: head with filletted and braided hair, looking right (in impression): rows of necklaces. Full face, rather pleasing and not like the usual Sumerian type. (B) For a bearded male figure, draped, standing in profile facing left (in impression) with hands clasped on breast. Very fine work, bold and yet delicate, perhaps goldsmiths moulds: the female head is best suited to such technique as gold-working. Brought in together and said to have been found together.
17341 31-43-76 (none) (none) Button seal. Steatite(?). White. Fragment. Half only remains. Animals. With a boss on the upper side perforated for suspension.
16927G 31-43-7 (none) (none) Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
16974 31-43-657 (none) (none) Terracotta relief of a woman, draped, advancing left with rt arm extended. (A) fragment: right hand and all figure below hips missing. Type XIII.5
17314 31-43-63 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Unpierced. Unfinished. A reserve for an inscription which has not been inserted.
16794 31-43-59 (none) (none) Cylinder Glazed Frit Type same as U.16.606.
17305 31-43-585 (none) (none) Bowl. Baked clay. Light drab. Decorated with an incised tree(?) and a serpent (?) turned round the trunk(?). Type 1DLXII.
16559D 31-43-58 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 steatite cylinder seals; [E] 1 Shell cylinder seal. Inscriptions illegible.
16559C 31-43-57 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 steatite cylinder seals; [E] 1 Shell cylinder seal. Inscriptions illegible.
16559B 31-43-56 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 steatite cylinder seals; [E] 1 Shell cylinder seal. Inscriptions illegible.
16559E 31-43-55 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 steatite cylinder seals; [E] 1 Shell cylinder seal. Inscriptions illegible.
17439 31-43-529 (none) (none) Adze. Copper.
16547 31-43-51 (none) (none) Limestone cylinder seal Nin-es(?)-ba-na, Son of ... H.C. 30/II, 3.
16920 31-43-463 (none) (none) Terracotta. A disk with 2 short legs: on the top of it, the head and arms of a woman with breast in front; hand modeled and very rough. [drawing 1:1]
16743 31-43-46 (none) (none) Quartz cylinder. Unengraved. Unpierced. cf. U. 16606. [drawing 1:1]
16904 31-43-459 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Grotesque and very rough. Draped human figure. [drawing 1:1]
17151 31-43-456 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Two deities, a god and goddess, facing each other. Both wear the long dress with pleated flounces. (A) Complete except for feet. [drawing 1:1]
16487A 31-43-455 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Bearded god, draped. Standing on an animal(?) [drawing 1:1] (A) Animal missing poor worn impression. (B) Similar figure, but from a larger mould, broken off at thighs; (C) Similar, broken away at knees, poor.
16450A 31-43-454 (none) (none) Terracotta Figurines. Bearded god. Type VII,4. (A) Fragment broken off at waist; (B) Fragment broken off at waist; (C) Terracotta Relief. Bearded god. Broken off at hips: very good impression. [drawing 1:1] (D) Fragment broken away below hands, similar figure, but from a smaller mould.

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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