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)
3359 (none) 1927,1003.203 (none) Seal cylinder. Diorite. About BC 2500. [drawing]
3084 (none) 1927,1003.202 (none) Seal cylinder. Soapstone. About BC 2700. [drawing]
2859 (none) 1927,1003.200 (none) Seal cylinder. Soapstone. About BC 2400 [drawing]
2726 (none) 1927,1003.195 (none) Seal cylinder. Soapstone. About BC2100 [drawing]
2754 (none) 1927,1003.194 (none) Seal cylinder. White marble. About BC 2800. Inscription: Da-da-mu = D? dumu Gu-za-na? son of G? [drawing]
3342 (none) 1927,1003.193 (none) Seal Cylinder. White limestone. Worn. Worshipping the Tree of Life. Assyrian influence BC 1200 (?) [drawing]
2764 (none) 1927,1003.190 (none) Stone dog. Couchant : of limestone, pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
3030 (none) 1927,1003.188 (none) Duck. Of white frit originally glazed: pierced for suspension.
2543 (none) 1927,1003.186 (none) Fish. Glazed frit, with clearly marked scales, pierced. ? Photo of better example [drawing 1:1]
2874 (none) 1927,1003.183 (none) Roundel of white frit. Originally glazed. Flat pierced behind to take wire for inlay. Glaze gone and object in bad condition. [drawing 1:1]
2865B (none) 1927,1003.179 (none) Terracotta Figurine. Nude Ishtar standing upon lion. Broken in lion, much defaced. [Drawing 1:1]
3150 (none) 1927,1003.178 (none) Terracotta figurine. Primitive figure of nude harpist with harp under left arm. Back and hair at back carefully modeled. Sketch 1:2. Photo: 422 (from back). [drawing 1:2]
2871 (none) 1927,1003.177 (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female with hands clasped. Head and torso only. [drawing 1:1]
2774 (none) 1927,1003.176 (none) Terracotta figurine. Female, kneeling with hands on breast: head missing : reddish ware. [drawing 1:1]
3077 (none) 1927,1003.175 (none) Head of terracotta figurine. Finely modeled head with tall headdress. [drawing 1:1]
2988 (none) 1927,1003.173 (none) Terracotta figurine. Votaress with clasped hands: adorned with beads. [drawing 1:1]
2869 (none) 1927,1003.172 (none) Clay figurine. Fragment of right lower arm and leg below knees missing. Curiously negroid type of face. [drawing 1:1]
2775 (none) 1927,1003.171 (none) Terracotta figurine. Drab ware: female votaress, nude, in attitude of devotion. [drawing 1:1]
3013 (none) 1927,1003.170 (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary. Presumably fish-god, bearing mace in left hand. One leg exposed. [drawing 1:1]
3284 (none) 1927,1003.169 (none) Terracotta figurine. Beardless male with flounced dress (or necklaces?) [drawing 1:1]
3153 (none) 1927,1003.168 (none) Terracotta figurine. Female, clothed, in profile. [drawing 1:1]
2773 (none) 1927,1003.167 (none) Terracotta figurine. Buff ware: portraying god wearing simplet fillet and carrying flail: sacred animal overhead. [drawing 1:1]
2991 (none) 1927,1003.166 (none) Terracotta figurine. Male with headgear, in profile: stick in left hand. [drawing 1:1]
3283 (none) 1927,1003.165 (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded god with prominent breasts: modelling fine. [drawing 1:1]
2865A (none) 1927,1003.164 (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude Ishtar standing upon lion. Broken in two, much defaced. [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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