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)
1510 (none) (none) (none) Seal. Black stone. Conical; deity(?) and crescent on pole.
1511 (none) (none) (none) Earring. Broken. Thin gold: boat shaped. [drawing]
1512 (none) 1924,0920.140 (none) Juglet. Brown clay; handmade. With incised herring-bone pattern below neck. [drawing 1:1]
1513 (none) (none) (none) Wheel. Drab clay; plain edge. Like U.1294.
1514 (none) 1924,0920.137 (none) Jar-stopper(?) red drab clay; egg-cup shape, unsymmetrical. [drawing 1:1]
1516 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Ur-Nammu, commemorating his construction of the canal of Ur.
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.
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.
1530 (none) 1924,0920.97 (none) Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only only. Red drab, clay: moulded. Female figure, clothed with conical headdress, bracelets and necklace.
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.
1534 (none) 1935,0113.42 (none) Figurine. Fragment. Head and legs below knees broken off, drab clay: moulded. Female figure, nude, with bracelets, left arm raised.
1536 (none) 1924,0920.91 (none) Figurine. Fragment, below waist downwards only: light drab clay; moulded. Male figure striding right, wearing loin cloth gathered between legs; right arm hanging at side.
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]
1542 (none) 1924,0920.131 (none) Pot. Red drab clay; handmade. With double neck, and suspension hole, between the 2 openings. [drawing 2:5]
1543 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. White hard stone (marble?). Incised with 3 vertical bands of 3 lines each. Chipped. [drawing 1:1]
1544 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Standing deity (Marduk) and seated deity with altar between and tree at back.
1545 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black stone. With figures faintly distinguishable.

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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