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)
18286 (none) (none) (none) Beads. A quantity of small blue paste rings.
18143 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Blue glazed hut. Cylinders with criss cross ornament [examples shown], plain date-shaped: one bead and one pendant bead and some plain cylinders. [drawing]
18147 (none) 1932,1008.149 (none) Beads. Blue paste. Mostly small double conoids, but a few tubular and date-shaped. ? Third Dynasty.
18321 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian chisel-shaped pendants and balls, large and small, and a few double conoids. Order not original. Beads all brought in together.
18320 (none) 1933,1013.162 (none) Beads. Carnelian poppy seeds, carnelian balls and small balls of bright yellow paste. Order not original; but the beads were all brought in together.
18221A (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian. (A) Date-shaped and barrels. (B) Poppy seeds: brought in together and probably from one tomb: with them a number of very small carnelian which probably went with the poppy seeds.
18201A 32-40-254 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian. Rings and chisel shaped pendants.
18201B 32-40-257 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian. Rings and chisel shaped pendants.
18203A (none) 1932,1008.111 (none) Beads. Carnelian. Rings and poppy seed pendants.
18203 32-40-256 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian. Rings and poppy seed pendants.
18202A (none) 1932,1008.114 (none) Beads. Carnelian. Rings and rod pendants.
18202B 32-40-255 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian. Rings and rod pendants.
18127.1 (none) 1932,1008.112 (none) Beads. Carnelian. Small ball and fleur-de-lys.
18127.2 32-40-249 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian. Small ball and fleur-de-lys.
18698 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian: chisel shaped pendant, tubes and cylinders.
18318 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Cylinders of blue glazed but with incised (moulded) patterns of zigzags between ring borders: beads 12mm-16mm long. Color unusually preserved.
18322 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Date shaped, of marble and other stones, coarsely made. Order not original but beads are brought in together.
18141 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Light brownish chalcedony. Double conoids, balls, date-shaped and cylindrical. Third Dynasty?
1661 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Mixed set, carnelian, shell, agate, etc., and one large gold bead. Brought in together.
19489 (none) (none) (none) Beads. mixed; carnelian balls, rings and tubes, puzuzu heads in frit and 1 in lapis paste, an archaic white calcite convex circular seal, a celt pierced for suspension, agate disk, large, with some steatite, crystal and other beads.
18319 (none) 1933,1013.159 (none) Beads. Plain cylinders and tubes of blue glazed frit, color unusually well preserved.
18348 (none) 1933,1013.156 (none) Beads. Roughly cut from various stones. Limestone, marble, pebble, crystal etc. Roughly date shaped, tubular, balls. Not in original order.
654 (none) 1923,1110.178 (none) Beads. String of (inserted) 128 small carnelian rings, 38 white pebble bugles + 12 small lapis beads, strung together. [below] Found with stone bowls +posts of No.'s U.810 sq.
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)
8854 (none) 1948,0423.73 (none) Bearded god. [drawing 1:1]

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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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