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)
1666 (none) 1924,0920.304 (none) Vase. Red clay; wheelmade. Elongated form with pointed bottom, rim broken B. Type CVI. =L.40b (not p)
1681 (none) 1924,0920.301 (none) Pot. Red-drab clay; wheelmade. Type LIII. =RC.40 =L (not p)
1676 (none) 1924,0920.295 (none) Jar. Drab clay; wheelmade, ribbed shoulder. B. Type CXVIII =RC.198. (?L ) not p.
1117 (none) 1924,0920.275 (none) Clay box. Coffin-shaped: adorned with snakes in relief: drab clay. Not to scale. [drawing]
1118B (none) 1924,0920.275 (none) Clay Box-lid. 3 fragments. Adorned with snakes in relief: light drab clay. (cf. U.1117) [drawing 2:5]
1561 (none) 1924,0920.251 (none) Base of baked clay cone, with (originally) several narrow columns of inscription of which the first is preserved intact. Inscription of Enannatum I, governor of Lagash, referring to his work in connection with an IB-GAL of the goddess Quanna.
1649 (none) 1924,0920.249 (none) Baked clay cone, (point broken) of Ur-Nammu, recording his building of a temple to Enlil and digging a canal called En-sig-nun. Duplicate of U.1632 etc.
1634 (none) 1924,0920.247 (none) Baked clay cone(point broken) of Ur-Nammu, recording his digging of the canal called Nun, in honor of the Moon-god. Duplicate of U.918.
1695 (none) 1924,0920.246 (none) Stone tablet. Fragment. Sharply convex both sides, on one of which are traces of what is perhaps a very archaic, semi-heiroglyphic inscription but mostly obliterated.
1704 (none) 1924,0920.236 (none) Bronze stilus. [drawing 1:1]
1711 (none) 1924,0920.228 (none) Copper wire coil. Fragment. Part of 6 coils.
1550 (none) 1924,0920.205 (none) Roughly fashioned human hand, with fingers. Dark grey stone. [drawing 2:5]
1699 (none) 1924,0920.197 (none) Flint arrowhead, with serrated edge. [drawing 1:1]
1508 (none) 1924,0920.185 (none) Weight (?) Black stone, with groove cut round the middle. Like U.1507, more elongated. Type III.
1502 (none) 1924,0920.184 (none) Stone plumb bob. Black stone, polished : with hole at end and 2 at side, and remains of copper wire within. P. [drawing]
1506 (none) 1924,0920.183 (none) Stone weight (?) Mottled mauve-black stone. Like U.1505 (smaller) Type II.
1505 (none) 1924,0920.182 (none) Weight (?) Black stone. Blunt-end cigar-shaped. Type II. [drawing 2:5]
1278 (none) 1924,0920.177 (none) Clay duck. Light clay. Pierced horizontally for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1269 (none) 1924,0920.176 (none) Clay monkey. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1275 (none) 1924,0920.175 (none) Clay Frog. Light drab clay (with traces of green glaze underneath) pierced for suspension. Like U.1273 [drawing 1:1]
1276 (none) 1924,0920.174 (none) Clay frog. Drab clay. Pierced for suspension. (broken) [drawing 1:1]
1289 (none) 1924,0920.173 (none) Clay rosette. Fragment of light clay, (lacking central boss, and loop it back)
1286 (none) 1924,0920.172 (none) Clay rosette. Light clay. Showing traces of green glaze; pierced through clay loop at back for attaching. (17 petals in rosette.)
1110 (none) 1924,0920.153 (none) Clay figurine. Fragment of. Head and body- arms broken off. Hand-modeled: clay: [drawing 1:1]
1120 (none) 1924,0920.147 (none) Clay head of pig, fragment, moulded: reddish clay. [drawing 1:1]

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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