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)
18284 33-35-170 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Facetted conical: chalcedony. Persian type. Two standing figures worshipping before an altar: crescent above.
18339 33-35-168 (none) (none) Fragment of statuette. Grey steatite. Part of a male figure wearing the Kaunakes with upper part of body bare: the hands clasped over the breast. Preserved , one half of the body, cut vertically, right side & rt arm, from just below the shoulder to the hip. The figure was deliberately cut in pieces: the saw marks go partly through the figure and then the fragments were broken apart. Fine work of about 3rd Dynasty or a little earlier.
18255 33-35-166 (none) (none) Amulet. Shell. Puzuzu head. [drawing]
18342 33-35-165 (none) (none) Puzuzu head. Dark steatite. With ring for suspension. Coarse work. [drawing]
18341 33-35-164 (none) (none) Animal's body. Grey steatite. Body of couchant animal, the hind quarters complete, in fairly high relief: the front leg only sketched: the stone is rounded off at the shoulder so that there never was a head. The body is flat and bears two engraved signs thus. [drawing]
18340 33-35-162 (none) (none) Calf's head in dark steatite. The neck pierced horizontally for attachment The eyes hollowed for inlay and a hole for inlay in the forehead. Good archaic work.
18498 33-35-161 (none) (none) Shell figurine. Flat, in low relief. [drawing 1:1]
18306 33-35-15 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Moulded. Light greenish drab clay. Nude female figure with hands on breasts. Head very small and birdlike: hair treated as in archaic Samian statues: hips and thighs grotesquely wide. Completely, but a poor impression from the mould.
18247 33-35-14 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of two bearded male figures advancing full face, side by side, holding mace and litnus. In very poor condition.
18721A 33-35-121 (none) (none) Stone hoes. 23 in all.
18215 33-35-12 (none) (none) Terracotta relief, back of bedstead with two birds facing each other: below, crosses in circles (fragmentary)
18718 33-35-113 (none) (none) Flint arrowhead. [drawing 1:1]
18211A 33-35-11 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine moulded in the round coarse late work and a very flaccid impression. (A) Broken in half. (B) Intact.
17975K 32-40-99 (none) (none) [A-N] Miniature flints. [drawing 1:1]
17975J 32-40-98 (none) (none) [A-N] Miniature flints. [drawing 1:1]
17975I 32-40-97 (none) (none) [A-N] Miniature flints. [drawing 1:1]
17975H 32-40-96 (none) (none) [A-N] Miniature flints. [drawing 1:1]
17975G 32-40-95 (none) (none) [A-N] Miniature flints. [drawing 1:1]
17975F 32-40-94 (none) (none) [A-N] Miniature flints. [drawing 1:1]
17975E 32-40-93 (none) (none) [A-N] Miniature flints. [drawing 1:1]
17975D 32-40-92 (none) (none) [A-N] Miniature flints. [drawing 1:1]
17975C 32-40-91 (none) (none) [A-N] Miniature flints. [drawing 1:1]
17975B 32-40-89 (none) (none) [A-N] Miniature flints. [drawing 1:1]
17975A 32-40-88 (none) (none) [A-N] Miniature flints. [drawing 1:1]
17938E 32-40-85 (none) (none) [A-R] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing]

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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