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)
1508 (none) 1924,0920.185 (none) Weight (?) Black stone, with groove cut round the middle. Like U.1507, more elongated. Type III.
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.
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.
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.
1531 (none) (none) B15655 Figurine. Fragment., below waist upwards only: drab clay: moulded. Female figure, same type as U.1530. P.
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.
1535 (none) (none) B15692 Clay Head. Red drab clay: modeled, wearing low cap, the eyes separately attached. P.
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.
1537 (none) (none) B15667 Figurine. Drab clay: moulded. Female figure holding circular object like U.1374. P.

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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