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)
2899 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Miniature of the drab ware : somewhat irregular. Type CLXVII, =P.54
2893 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Greyish limestone. About BC 2400. [drawing]
2892 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Soapstone. About BC 2800 [drawing]
2890 (none) (none) (none) Pottery spoon (?) Reddish ware with handle broken off. Sketch roughly 1:1 [drawing 1:1]
2888 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of inlay. Arogonite, oblong: pierced behind for suspension: honey-colored.
2887 29-174-16 (none) (none) Pottery vase. Drab ware with pointed base and ribbed rim. Lip broken. Type CXLIII.
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.
2876 (none) (none) (none) Duck. White frit originally glazed: pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
2875 (none) (none) (none) Head of figurine. Buff ware: female with headdress. [drawing 1:1]
2874 (none) 1927,1003.183 (none) Roundel of white frit. Originally glazed. Flat pierced behind to take wire for inlay. Glaze gone and object in bad condition. [drawing 1:1]
2873 (none) (none) (none) Head of figurine. Brown terracotta well modeled.
2872 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine. Fragment of reddish clay [drawing 1:1]
2871 (none) 1927,1003.177 (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female with hands clasped. Head and torso only. [drawing 1:1]
2869 (none) 1927,1003.172 (none) Clay figurine. Fragment of right lower arm and leg below knees missing. Curiously negroid type of face. [drawing 1:1]
2868 (none) 1927,1003.162 (none) Terracotta figurine. Clothed woman in profile and suckling child. [drawing 1:1]
2865B (none) 1927,1003.179 (none) Terracotta Figurine. Nude Ishtar standing upon lion. Broken in lion, much defaced. [Drawing 1:1]
2865A (none) 1927,1003.164 (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude Ishtar standing upon lion. Broken in two, much defaced. [drawing 1:1]
2859 (none) 1927,1003.200 (none) Seal cylinder. Soapstone. About BC 2400 [drawing]
2858 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black limestone. About BC 2100. [drawing]
2857 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black diorite. About BC 2400 [drawing]
2856 (none) (none) (none) Cone seal. Glazed pottery. Egyptian style. Neo-Babylonian period. [drawing]
2851 (none) 1927,1003.245 (none) Shell bird. Eagle of Lagash: head missing.
2848 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Handmade miniature of reddish drab ware. Sketch pattern 1:1 [drawing 1:1]
2845B 29-174-24 (none) (none) Pottery jars. Large of buff ware. Round bottomed. B. slightly different and lip broken. Type CLVII, =RC.220, [the following would seem to apply to (B) only) (not p)
2843 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Drab ware, broad-bellied and round bottomed. Type CL. =RC.80

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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Sibling Locations

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