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)
1723 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine. Drab clay: moulded. Nude female figure, with necklace.
1725 (none) 1924,0920.107 (none) Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only: drab clay; moulded; nude female figure.
1726 (none) 1924,0920.101 (none) Relief. Fragment from back of chair; drab clay; moulded. 2 female(?) figures facing each other with 2 birds on poles and tripod (?) between them.
1727 (none) (none) (none) Black stone, of irregular shape, broken, probably part of a gate socket. On a smoothed surface is a 8 line inscription of Bur-Sin, king of Ur, recording his building of a ge-par for the goddess Nin-gal.
1731 (none) 1924,0920.121 (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment. On a sort of tray, two miniature couchant lions. Cf. U.1227, which is certainly of the same subject.
1736 (none) 1924,0920.141 (none) Bowl. Greenish white clay. Same type as U.1735 but rim much chipped. Same size.
1739 (none) 1924,0920.135 (none) Miniature vase. Light drab clay. Handmade. Cf. RC.83c [drawing]
1740 (none) 1924,0920.136 (none) Miniature bowl. Hand-made. Flat-bottomed.
1742 (none) 1924,0920.64 (none) Terracotta relief. Green clay. Female figure, full face, standing with hands raised to breast. Triple feather crown, bead (?) girdle. By the side of the figure traces of rope-pattern, possibly edge of a veil (or shrine) behind the goddess.
1746 (none) 1924,0920.114 (none) Terracotta relief. Fragment. Upper part of female figure, full face: curious double headdress: hair elaborately ringed: cloak over shoulders bbelow bead collar meeting above breasts, rosette on left shoulder: hands clasped below breasts.
1748 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Whitish clay. Nude female figure, full face, broken at knees; no detail.
1749 (none) 1924,0920.138 (none) Miniature vase. Handmade. Light reddish clay. Cf. RC.188 and 231
1752 (none) 1924,0920.130 (none) Rattle. Clay. Normal type, two serrated wheels.
1753 (none) 1924,0920.95 (none) Relief disk. Moulded in greenish-white clay. A grotesque face. The eyes are pierced and so are 2 holes near the place for the ears, as it is for suspension: the disk face is conves, and hollow behind.
1755 (none) 1924,0920.68 (none) Figure. Moulded. Reddish clay. On a chair or throne, (broken) upright female (?) figure, full face. Hands on breasts, body apparently draped: on head, a mural (?) crown: heavy curls over shoulders.
1756 (none) 1924,0920.75 (none) Relief. Moulded clay. Grotesque male figure, full face: Bes-like head, right arm raised, left to breast, body nude, large genital organs, bowl legs. Feet together.
1757 (none) 1924,0920.69 (none) Relief. Light red clay. Moulded. Female figure seated figure right: intact from same mould as U.1375.
1758 (none) 1924,0920.84 (none) Relief. Light drab clay. Moulded. Female(?) figure seated left; long robe to feet; hgih horned (?) headdress; from the shoulders rise rays or wings represented by 3 strokes.
1759 (none) 1924,0920.67 (none) Figurine. Light red clay. Moulded. Nude female figure seated, full face, wears full-bottomed wig and bead-collar: with both hands holds infant to left breast. Roughly modeled in relief: two legs behind enable relief to stand up.
1766 (none) 1924,0920.146 (none) Terracotta figurine. Green clay. Fragment. Head only, much damaged, of ram. [drawing 1:1]
1767 (none) 1924,0920.376 (none) Figurine. Drab clay. Female, nude, upright, feet broken. [drawing 1:1]
1768 (none) 1924,0920.373 (none) Figurine. Red clay. Female, robed, arms raised, feet, broken, worn. [drawing 1:1]
1769 (none) 1924,0920.378 (none) Figurine. Red clay. Head and shoulders only. [drawing 1:1]
1770 (none) 1924,0920.380 (none) Figurine. Red clay. Female, head and trunk only, holding tamborine. [drawing 1:1]
1771 (none) 1924,0920.370 (none) Figurine. Drab clay. Female with headdress and flounced skirt. [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)
  • 3 Media

Sibling Locations

Unknown - Ur