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)
17170 (none) 1931,1010.406 (none) Terracotta relief. Nude female with hands clasped below breasts. Crude grotesque type. (A) Broken only at legs. [drawing]
16487C (none) 1931,1010.405 (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.
16443A (none) 1931,1010.404 (none) Terracotta figurines. Seated Goddess; type VI,6. (A) Fragment from the clasped hands upwards; (B) Fragment from the clasped hands upwards: (C) Fragment head and shoulders only; (D) Complete except for chip out of left side (broken and mended).
16922 (none) 1931,1010.400 (none) Terracotta relief. Moulded and then worked up by hand with extra clay added; nude female figure with left hand holding object to breast, and right hand extended holding a saucer. Fragment only, broken off below waist. [drawing 1:1]
17324 (none) 1931,1010.40 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Theriomachy. Figures roughly cut.
16466 (none) 1931,1010.395 (none) Terracotta Figurine. Relief of bearded man. (A) Broken off below knees. [drawing 1:1]
16500 (none) 1931,1010.394 (none) Terracotta relief. Seated goddess, full face, wearing horned headdress and flounced garment; on either side a crescent on a staff held by a minute human figure. (A) Fragment to below clasped hands. [drawing]
16907A (none) 1931,1010.391 (none) Terracotta relief. Horned and bearded god carrying Litnus and a bag on a stick. (A) very flat poor modelling, fragment broken at waist. [drawing 1:1]
17132 (none) 1931,1010.390 (none) Terracotta relief. A dwarf (?). Squat bow-legged figure. Wearing kilt: full front. (A) Complete but flaked.
16477 (none) 1931,1010.385 (none) Terracotta Figurine. Small seated goddess. Type VI, 10 (A) Rough impression, complete to knees only.
16472 (none) 1931,1010.383 (none) Terracotta Figurine. Bearded Man. (A) Broken off at waist. [drawing 1:1]
16024 (none) 1931,1010.37 (none) Steatite Cylinder seal. Illegible. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17311 (none) 1931,1010.37 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Fragment. Two registers. Above. Palm on a high vase, one one side seated figure saluting, on the other a standing figure saluting. Below. Geese (?)
16287 (none) 1931,1010.353 (none) Clay roundel. On which is stamped in relief the figure of a flying bird. [drawing 1:1]
17391 (none) 1931,1010.318 (none) Dagger. Miniature. Copper. Broken in 2 pieces.
17442 (none) 1931,1010.304 (none) Gouge? Copper. Stem rectangular in section of top circular in section in middle. Hollowed end.
17068B (none) 1931,1010.303 (none) [A-B] Chisels. Copper. A pair. On one side of B remains in copper of an open work sheath - trellis work type. ?
17068A (none) 1931,1010.301 (none) [A-B] Chisels. Copper. A pair. On one side of B remains in copper of an open work sheath - trellis work type. ?
16551 (none) 1931,1010.30 (none) Cylinder seal, steatite. Lugal... H.C. 30/II, 7.
17073 (none) 1931,1010.299 (none) Razor. Copper. 2 copper rivets in tang. Type XVI.
17072A (none) 1931,1010.298 (none) [A-B] 2 copper hoes (?). Hammered. Socket hammered to form an overlap. [drawing]
16690 (none) 1931,1010.27 (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Miniature. Spread eagle.
17312 (none) 1931,1010.26 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 standing figures.
16927C (none) 1931,1010.232 (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]
16927D (none) 1931,1010.232 (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]

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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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