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)
1507 (none) (none) B15731 Stone weight. Mottled black stone. Like U.1506 (more elongated). Type II. P. [Philadelphia]
1510 (none) (none) (none) Seal. Black stone. Conical; deity(?) and crescent on pole.
1511 (none) (none) (none) Earring. Broken. Thin gold: boat shaped. [drawing]
1513 (none) (none) (none) Wheel. Drab clay; plain edge. Like U.1294.
1516 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Ur-Nammu, commemorating his construction of the canal of Ur.
1517 (none) (none) B15613 Clay cone of Ur-Nammu. Inscription duplicate of U.1515. P.
1519 (none) (none) (none) Small account tablet tablet. Apparently undated, but of 3rd Dynasty of Ur.
1520 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Fragment. Beginning of an Old Babylonian letter, mostly illegible.
1522 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark stone. Half. With trace of an archaic inscription.
1523 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. One side much damaged. Device is in 2 registers. Introduction scene above and crude design of swans below. Inscription: ahat-i-li-lugal-usum-(gal)-la PA. For design and inscription compare U.1268 and U.1267.
1524 (none) (none) B15702 Bedstead (or chair) Drab clay. 2 legs and back missing. Decorated with 6(?) panels in relief, like the quarterings of a shield. P.
1525 (none) (none) (none) Wheel. Red clay, plain edge. Like U.1513.
1526 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Greenish clay: moulded. 2 seated figures, female, clothed, of very unequal size; weathered.
1527 (none) (none) B15689 Clay Figurine. Fragment of, head and shoulders only, drab clay: moulded. Bearded figure in high horned headdress. P.
1528 (none) (none) B15654 Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only. Red clay, yellow surface: moulded. Figure in horned headdress. P.
1529 (none) (none) B15679 Figurine. Drab clay: moulded. Female figure with necklace, partly clothed, with flat headdress. Legs broken. P.
1531 (none) (none) B15655 Figurine. Fragment., below waist upwards only: drab clay: moulded. Female figure, same type as U.1530. P.
1532 31-16-880 (none) (none) Figurine. Fragment. Waist upwards only. Yellow clay: moulded. Female figure, with necklace, weathered. P. 31-16.880
1533 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Reddish clay, drab surface: moulded. Female figure, nude, with left arm raised. Broken away from knees downwards.
1535 (none) (none) B15692 Clay Head. Red drab clay: modeled, wearing low cap, the eyes separately attached. P.
1537 (none) (none) B15667 Figurine. Drab clay: moulded. Female figure holding circular object like U.1374. P.
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]

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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