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)
16494D (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Seated female figure draped, with hand to breast. Head very large and grotesque. Lightly baked red clay. [drawing 1:1] (A) complete, weak and flat impression. (B) Complete, week and flat impression, it is repeated on the back of the clay from the same mould. (C) Head missing, poor, on reverse a very faint impression from the same mould; (D) Complete, poor, narrow frame; (E) Complete, poor, narrow frame.
16494E (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Seated female figure draped, with hand to breast. Head very large and grotesque. Lightly baked red clay. [drawing 1:1] (A) complete, weak and flat impression. (B) Complete, week and flat impression, it is repeated on the back of the clay from the same mould. (C) Head missing, poor, on reverse a very faint impression from the same mould; (D) Complete, poor, narrow frame; (E) Complete, poor, narrow frame.
18028 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Seated bearded god embracing nude goddess. Crescent above. Poor condition. Complete.
1013 (none) (none) B15188 Terracotta relief. Red clay. Moulded. Replica (from same mould) as U.1012, but broken off a little bit below the waist.
1762 (none) (none) B15650 Terracotta relief. Red clay. Moulded. Bearded figure, full face. On head, high horned cap (chipped), long curls on shoulder, bull's ears: dress presumably sheepskin queerly treated with lobes in relief: right hand holds mace to shoulder left hand apparently an axe of this type. Broken at waist.
1012 (none) 1923,1110.99 (none) Terracotta relief. Red clay. Moulded, in a rectangular frame (shrine?) a female figure wearing turreted headdress, heavy cloak with big rosettes on shoulders, flounced skirt. In each hand a bottle (?): 4 large rosettes in field above shoulders. Features pinched and not recognizable. Broken off at knees.
18024 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Puzuzu head.
18025 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Puzuzu head.
18026 32-40-38 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Puzuzu head.
18495 (none) 1933,1013.203 (none) Terracotta relief. Puzuzu head (complete)
16968 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. One of a large series all similar in type but differing in treatment: said to have been found in the flat ground beyond Diqdiqqeh, but their genuineness doubtful. [drawing 1:1]
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.
18612 33-35-23 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of single female figure- hands clasped below the breast. wearing heavy ruffles or necklace round the neck. & a headdress of five large bunches of hair. Lines round the waist.
18610 33-35-22 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of naked female figure: hands clasped below the breast, hair dressed in curls over the ears and necklace round the neck. Broken about the knees.
18618 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of naked female figure, hands clasped below the breast, hair done in outstanding curl on each side of the head. Broken below the knees.
18613 33-35-24 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of bearded male figure wearing a high headdress, with ornament falling down from it to below the shoulders on each side. Curls of hair on each side of the face, hands clasped, and wearing some kind of close-fitting dress. Broken below the waist.
18620 33-35-58 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Of a lion, passing to the right with mouth open, tail over back.
16498A (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude woman suckling an infant. Good modelling, high relief. [drawing 1:1] (A) Broken away from waist (as drawn) (B) Broken away at hips and face smashed; from a similar but slightly smaller mould; (C) Head and legs below knees missing: perhaps from a different mould but very similar. (D) Head and feet missing; poor impression, not from the same mould as last, but perhaps identical with (A); (E) Missing from waist downward: (smaller mould); (F) Fragment broken away at hips, poor specimen; (G) Fragment head and legs below knees missing; (H) Complete, good impression, probably from different mould.
16498B (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude woman suckling an infant. Good modelling, high relief. [drawing 1:1] (A) Broken away from waist (as drawn) (B) Broken away at hips and face smashed; from a similar but slightly smaller mould; (C) Head and legs below knees missing: perhaps from a different mould but very similar. (D) Head and feet missing; poor impression, not from the same mould as last, but perhaps identical with (A); (E) Missing from waist downward: (smaller mould); (F) Fragment broken away at hips, poor specimen; (G) Fragment head and legs below knees missing; (H) Complete, good impression, probably from different mould.
16498F (none) 1931,1010.450 (none) Terracotta relief. Nude woman suckling an infant. Good modelling, high relief. [drawing 1:1] (A) Broken away from waist (as drawn) (B) Broken away at hips and face smashed; from a similar but slightly smaller mould; (C) Head and legs below knees missing: perhaps from a different mould but very similar. (D) Head and feet missing; poor impression, not from the same mould as last, but perhaps identical with (A); (E) Missing from waist downward: (smaller mould); (F) Fragment broken away at hips, poor specimen; (G) Fragment head and legs below knees missing; (H) Complete, good impression, probably from different mould.
16498G (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude woman suckling an infant. Good modelling, high relief. [drawing 1:1] (A) Broken away from waist (as drawn) (B) Broken away at hips and face smashed; from a similar but slightly smaller mould; (C) Head and legs below knees missing: perhaps from a different mould but very similar. (D) Head and feet missing; poor impression, not from the same mould as last, but perhaps identical with (A); (E) Missing from waist downward: (smaller mould); (F) Fragment broken away at hips, poor specimen; (G) Fragment head and legs below knees missing; (H) Complete, good impression, probably from different mould.
17125 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude male figure, standing, holding cups (?) to his breast. (A) Complete. Type X. 3.
16480 (none) 1931,1010.407 (none) Terracotta relief. Nude goddess standing on a lion. Type XII. 1. (A) Fragment the lion complete, but only the feet of the goddess left.
18044 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude goddess standing full face, left hand below breast, right extended : high crown : the body nude but a short cloak or shawl over the right shoulder. Fragment, from the thighs upwards.
18040A 32-40-31 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude girl standing full face, left hand to breast, right raised to shoulder level. (the body has an almost Praxitelian curve!). (A) Complete, except for the lower leg. (B) Fragment from the waist upwards. (C) Fragment, from the hips upwards.

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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