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)
821 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl of rose-pink mottled stone (marble?)
822 (none) 1923,1110.61 (none) Stone bowl of coarse grey limestone, chip out of rim.
823A (none) (none) (none) [A-E] Five Roundels green stone. Flat below and domed above possibly lids for vases?
823B (none) (none) (none) [A-E] Five Roundels Green stone. Flat below and domed above possibly lids for vases?
823C (none) (none) (none) [A-E] Five Roundels Green stone. Flat below and domed above possibly lids for vases?
823D (none) 1923,1110.67 (none) [A-E] Five Roundels Green stone. Flat below and domed above possibly lids for vases?
824 (none) (none) (none) Stone mortar. of fairly hard greenish grey stone. [drawing]
825 (none) (none) (none) Stone pestle. of hard whitish limestone.
826A (none) (none) (none) [A-M] Shell rings (13). Found with the stone pots, etc.
827 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 9 bugle-beads of white shell, much decayed; the longest is 7mm long. A few shell disk beads of the usual small type. A quantity of small shells, whole, but pierced for threading. One mother-o'-pearl spacer, flat, thus [drawing 1:1] Half-a-dozen small carnelian ring beads. Found with stonerams
828 (none) (none) (none) A collection of small flints. All saw-edged. Found with stone bowls and beads.
829 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. of drab-clay, wheelmade. Type CI. Found with stone vases, etc. [drawing]
831 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. of drab clay, wheelmade. Type CIII. Found with stone vases and beads.
832 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. of reddish clay, creamy engobbage. All top part broken away and much of surface gone. Type C. Found with stone vases.
833 (none) (none) (none) Clay Pot of red clay with creamy engobbage. Rim gone and edge ground down. Type C, but with no foot, flat bottomed. Found with stone vases and beads.
843 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine of red clay, snowman technique. A goddess with elaborate headdress seated on chair; hands clasped below breasts. New Babylonian style. [drawing 1:1:]
844 (none) (none) (none) Clay boat. Front part of . [drawing]
845 31-16-908 (none) (none) Clay relief. Fragment, lower part only on a chair, a woman, preserved from the waist downwards, in elaborately flounced skirt. One peg survives behind for propping up the figure. [drawing 1:1]
847 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Gilgamesh and his friend killing their favorite winged gryphon. Fairly good work.
893 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Reddish clay with drab engobbage. Wheelmade. Type LVII. =RC.75. not P.
915 (none) 1923,1110.97 (none) Clay relief. Goddess seated on a chair: flounced skirt, horned headdress, 2 pegs behind to make it stand up. [drawing]
916 (none) (none) (none) Limestone figurine. of a recumbent doe. [drawing 1:1]
917 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of small clay cone. Duplicate of Ur-Engur's inscription concerning the canal of Ur, U.169. Placed in IN/No. 4
918 (none) (none) (none) Small clay cone, base and side slightly damaged. Inscription of Ur-Engur recording his digging of a canal called ID-UN. Placed in IN/No. 4.
997 (none) (none) (none) Clay Rattle of Greenish white clay. Pierced across, rim double and scalloped. [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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