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)
17938D 32-40-84 (none) (none) [A-R] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing]
17938C 32-40-83 (none) (none) [A-R] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing]
17938B 32-40-82 (none) (none) [A-R] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing]
17938A 32-40-81 (none) (none) [A-R] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing]
17936K 32-40-80 (none) (none) [A-K] Celts. Flint. Straight sided or tang slightly convex. [drawing 1:1]
17936J 32-40-79 (none) (none) [A-K] Celts. Flint. Straight sided or tang slightly convex. [drawing 1:1]
18086 32-40-45 (none) (none) Clay mould. For making figurines. Goddess wearing a flat low headdress. Fragment: only the head and ahoulders left.
17717 32-40-436 (none) (none) Pictograph. Limestone. [drawing 1:1]
18160 32-40-43 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Hand modelled of a humped bison (?): the horns both missing. [drawing]
18026 32-40-38 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Puzuzu head.
18039B 32-40-35 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude female, -young girl- standing full face, hands clasped = hair in waves, double necklace. (A) = fragment, complete from thighs upwards. (B) Fragment, from waist up. Not from the same mould, but identical type. (C) Fragment from waist up = perhaps from the same mould as (B). (D) Fragment, from hips up = same type but from a smaller mould.
17797 32-40-345 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Shell. One side flattened and rough representation of animal drilled and scratched on. [drawing 1:1]
18171 32-40-343 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Clay, baked, convex sides. Tree, ladder and rosettes. Very lightly scratched design.
18047A 32-40-34 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female standing full face, hands clasped. (A) Complete to knees. (B) Complete but mould has failed between knees and feet. (C) Complete. (D) Complete from knees upwards. Poor impression. (E) The same figure but 2 heads struck from the same mould have been attached to one body, very clumsily. Doubtful authenticity. Said to be from Digdiggeh.
18179 32-40-331 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Glazed frit, glaze perished. Kid and palm tree.
17726 32-40-330 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. 2 men fighting a lion.
18048A 32-40-33 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female standing full face, hands clasped the hair dressed in a heavy rather Egyptian style. (A) Fragment, from clasped hands upwards (background removed). (B) Fragment (background left on) = from belly upwards: much worn.
17763 32-40-329 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Obscured; 2 lines of inscription. Adoring figure of goddess separated by star on staff.
18180 32-40-328 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Two ostriches (?).
17871 32-40-326 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Badly chipped. Presentation scene with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and 3 columns of inscription.
17678 32-40-324 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Eye; joined ladders. On photo: U.17679.
17877 32-40-323 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity & standing attendant. Poor cutting.
18167 32-40-320 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Of dark and light grey pebble. Rectangular, with slightly convex top, pierced longitudinally. Rough design on base, of a man with his arms raised and his legs twisted up in an impossible fashion (?) [drawing]
17662 32-40-319 (none) (none) Seal. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1]
17869 32-40-316 (none) (none) Jeweller's trial piece (?). Fragment of a four-sided rod of white limestone: on one side a roughly cut intaglio; a small figure of a man copulating with a woman, the latter figure large and grotesque.

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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