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)
1580 (none) (none) B15704 Clay Lion's head with traces of glaze. P. [drawing 1:1]
771 (none) (none) (none) Clay mask. Fragment of, in whitish clay. [drawing 1:1]
72 (none) (none) B15192 Clay mask. The eyes are pierced right through and filled with paste, originally blue: there is a hole at the top for suspension. [drawing 1:1] [Annotated] Phil
18806 (none) (none) (none) Clay model bed, with string mattress. Complete.
12497 (none) 1928,1010.809 (none) Clay model bed. With string or reed mattress - no head. (broken into 2).
1260 (none) (none) (none) Clay model of a bellum, broken at one end.
1259 (none) 1924,0920.123 (none) Clay model of a bellum: owl end broken
1228 (none) 1924,0920.128 (none) Clay model of a bird, with conventional leg like a vase, the neck broken off. A child's rattle wings rendered by cross-hatching on back. A hole pierced under tail. [drawing]
1257 (none) 1924,0920.124 (none) Clay model of wheel; light buff color.
1256 (none) (none) (none) Clay model of wheel; usual type; red ware, the circumferential coggings worn away.
2640 (none) (none) (none) Clay model shield. Drab clay: arm band at back unpierced. [drawing]
17110 (none) (none) (none) Clay model shrine (?) Rectangular box of very rough clay at one end there is within it a staircase of five steps: a low ridge like a wooden bar held in sockets at each end divides the box into two parts: the staircase is in one, in the other a snake (head missing) lies on the ground. One side and both ends of the box much broken. [drawing]
18707 (none) (none) (none) Clay model stool with wickerwork seat.
18708 (none) (none) (none) Clay model stool with wickerwork seat.
1252 (none) (none) B15708 Clay model, a child's toy representing a man mounted upon a horse, which has two heads looking towards each other. The upper part of the rider is broken, and the reins(?) are represented in a curious manner. The whole stands on a clay base with holes for wheels and for a string to pull it along. P. [drawing]
1270 (none) (none) B15724 Clay monkey. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. P. [drawing 1:1]
1269 (none) 1924,0920.176 (none) Clay monkey. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
18371 (none) (none) (none) Clay mould for making Puzuzu-head glazed beads: on the side of it an inscription.
17603 (none) 1932,1008.251 (none) Clay mould for nude female figure (broken and mended).
16929A 31-43-90 (none) (none) Clay mould. (A) For a female head in profile, high relief: head with filletted and braided hair, looking right (in impression): rows of necklaces. Full face, rather pleasing and not like the usual Sumerian type. (B) For a bearded male figure, draped, standing in profile facing left (in impression) with hands clasped on breast. Very fine work, bold and yet delicate, perhaps goldsmiths moulds: the female head is best suited to such technique as gold-working. Brought in together and said to have been found together.
16929B 31-43-89 (none) (none) Clay mould. (A) For a female head in profile, high relief: head with filletted and braided hair, looking right (in impression): rows of necklaces. Full face, rather pleasing and not like the usual Sumerian type. (B) For a bearded male figure, draped, standing in profile facing left (in impression) with hands clasped on breast. Very fine work, bold and yet delicate, perhaps goldsmiths moulds: the female head is best suited to such technique as gold-working. Brought in together and said to have been found together.
18086 32-40-45 (none) (none) Clay mould. For making figurines. Goddess wearing a flat low headdress. Fragment: only the head and ahoulders left.
9323 (none) (none) (none) Clay Pazuzu Head [drawing] 1:1
17182 (none) (none) (none) Clay phallus. Broken off from some object, perhaps a vase. It is hollow with a very minute hole at the top: circumcised. Two hands grasp it at the base. [drawing 1:1]
10147 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot Fragment (Bab. to Nebuch. Mallowan) impressed with an inscription from some small inscribed object: not cylinder, the inscription on the pot being the negative. What was the object used? A. Whetstone? (M. Mallowan?) or cf. Mackay A Cemetery. Plate. I, 6 HC 300

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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