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)
1615 (none) 1924,0920.120 (none) Stool. Drab clay. With 4 legs, and with moulded herring-bone pattern on the seat.
1618 (none) (none) (none) Fragment. Head of animal (horse?). Drab clay. [drawing 1:1]
1619 (none) (none) (none) Fragment. Head of pig(?) Yellowish clay. One side broken away.
1621 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Pig's head. Pierced between ears for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1623 (none) (none) (none) Copper harpoon. Hollow socketed, with chisel point, and barb; complete. [drawing 1:1]
1624 (none) 1924,0920.80 (none) Clay figurine. Drab clay; modeled. Seated figure, with necklace.
1626 (none) 1935,0113.46 (none) Figurine. Fragment, bust only. Light drab clay; moulded. Male(?) figure with right shoulder base and cloak thrown over left.
1627 (none) (none) (none) Bronze pin. With round head; square in section; pierced just below head. Point broken off. [drawing 1:1]
1628 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed with scene of presentation to goddess.
1629 (none) 1924,0920.124 (none) Chariot. Fragment. Red clay. Pierced for axle and pole, and having incised triangle ornament in front. [drawing]
1630 (none) 1924,0920.382 (none) Relief. On the back of a broken chair. Drab clay; moulded. 2 figures (nude) with high headdresses, standing side beside. Round them birds.
1632 (none) (none) (none) Baked clay cone of Ur-Nammu, top broken away; text records building of a temple to Enlil, and digging of a canal called En-sig-nun. Cf. U.872, U.1595-U.1597
1633 (none) (none) (none) Part of base and stem of baked clay cone of Rim-Sin, king of Larsa, recording his building of a temple to the Moon-god. Duplicate, with small variants, of U.781.
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.
1636 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. With roughly engraved device of introduction ceremony, and inscription of 2 lines. Ur-dub: dumu Ur-d.Kal
1637 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. large bugles and ball beads, frit, originally blue glazed, now bleached white.: 36 in all.
1638 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (32) Small bugle or lentoid beads and balls; once glazed, now bleached white; the former had marbled patterns in different colors.
1640 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (36) Ball beads of carnelian and rock crystal with cat's eye center.
1642 (none) (none) (none) Beads (10) Carnelian, agate, etc., found together.
1643 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Very small gold ball beads, some plain, some fluted; found all together, with a few small lapis and carnelian beads. Sixty strung together, others loose. (purchased)
1645 (none) (none) (none) Ivory pin. With six grooves at head; pierced just below head. [drawing 2:5]
1646 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Clay, with device of eagle, lance, etc.
1647 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Blue stone. Irregularly cylindrical, with no trace of device.
1648 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Clay. Presentation to deity, broken.
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.

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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