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)
1524 (none) (none) B15702 Bedstead (or chair) Drab clay. 2 legs and back missing. Decorated with 6(?) panels in relief, like the quarterings of a shield. P.
1436 (none) (none) B15716 Bird. Drab clay: modeled. Bird body on pedestal, head and tail broken. Pierced through back - perhaps a rattle. P.
1189 (none) (none) (none) Black steatite cylinder seal with rather careless design of the "introduction" scene, the god facing right, with crescent before him.
1187 (none) (none) (none) Black steatite cylinder-seal with device of "introduction" to a god, who faces right with crescent over him. Inscribed: - IM-ti-dam; mar I-li-mi.
16792 (none) 1931,1010.138 (none) Black stone celt. Slightly convex. [drawing]
16793 31-43-283 (none) (none) Black stone celt. [drawing]
1727 (none) (none) (none) Black stone, of irregular shape, broken, probably part of a gate socket. On a smoothed surface is a 8 line inscription of Bur-Sin, king of Ur, recording his building of a ge-par for the goddess Nin-gal.
17699 (none) (none) (none) Blade of mattock or hoe. Copper. Hafted; wings joined by 2 bolts. [drawing]
1450 (none) (none) (none) Boat(bellum) Red clay, drab surface; broken.
1449 (none) (none) (none) Boat(bellum) White high recurved prow; drab surface clay; holds in bottom.
20054 (none) (none) (none) Bowl of green glazed earthen ware. Type 75b = new 50 (P) [drawing]
1471 (none) (none) (none) Bowl of mortar. Greenish-brown veined stone.
1675 (none) (none) (none) Bowl or Saucer. Buff clay; wheelmade. B. Type CXVI. =RC.25 (not p)
17305 31-43-585 (none) (none) Bowl. Baked clay. Light drab. Decorated with an incised tree(?) and a serpent (?) turned round the trunk(?). Type 1DLXII.
17750 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Calcareous sandstone. Cross scratched on base. [drawing]
1005 (none) (none) B14986 Bowl. Egg-shell ware. Pale drab color, wheelmade. Broken but joins up. Type XCV =P.187
1622 (none) (none) B15803 Bowl. Fine-grained greenish stone. Type VII.
1672 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Greenish clay; wheelmade, small; with base ring. B. Type CXIII. =RC.29 (not p)
1736 (none) 1924,0920.141 (none) Bowl. Greenish white clay. Same type as U.1735 but rim much chipped. Same size.
1129 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Light brown clay. Wheelmade: somwhat unsymmetrical. Type XXVI.
1735 (none) (none) B15768 Bowl. Light red clay with creamy slip. P. [drawing 1:1]
17681 32-40-142 (none) (none) Bowl. Pink limestone. Not RC or L [drawing]
1501 (none) (none) (none) Box lid. Fragment. Drab clay. With boss handle and snake in relief. [drawing 2:5]
1541A (none) (none) (none) Box lid. Red clay, with boss handle and adorned with snakes. Part missing, the remainder in 2 pieces (A and B). Found with and probably belonging to box U.1540. [drawing: not to scale]
1541B (none) (none) (none) Box lid. Red clay, with boss handle and adorned with snakes. Part missing, the remainder in 2 pieces (A and B). Found with and probably belonging to box U.1540. [drawing: not to scale]

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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