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)
1258 (none) (none) (none) Portion of clay model of a wheel; light buff.
1260 (none) (none) (none) Clay model of a bellum, broken at one end.
1261 (none) (none) (none) Light grey stone cylinder-seal, with "introduction" scene: the god sits facing right and has the crescent moon before him. Inscribed: -Puzur-d A(dad) amal KU(?)?
1264 (none) (none) (none) Fragment from edge of a bowl in a black porous stone, with remains of an archaic inscription under lip.
1265 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal the device mostly obliterated, but containing 3 lines inscription. Sa-ku-gi; mar Lugal-ka-gi; amel (?) DIM.
1266 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal; two confronted human figures slaying lion which rears between them facing left. Inscription. Emuk(GIR)-i-li-sa(!) mar Urdnin-? PA KU(?) LU(?)
1267 (none) (none) B15592, B15592 Cylinder seal; scene of "introduction" to seated god facing right, with star and crescent above. Inscription: Lugal-asum-gal (cf. U.1268) mar Ur-sul. Su-du-a.
1268 (none) (none) B15593, B15593 Cylinder seal in 2 registers: above, scene of "introduction" to a goddess. A woman is led forward by a female protecting deity. In lower register, 3 swans. Inscription: Ahat-ilti. Assat Lugal-usum-gal. (cf.U1267)
1270 (none) (none) B15724 Clay monkey. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. P. [drawing 1:1]
1271 (none) (none) (none) Clay tortoise. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. Under side plain. [drawing 1:1]
1272 (none) (none) B15720 Clay Frog. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. (small) P. [drawing]
1273 (none) (none) (none) Frog. Drab clay. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1274 (none) (none) B15719 Clay Frog. Light drab clay. With traces of green pigment (glaze?) pierced for suspension. Like U.1273. P.
1277 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. Light clay. Pierced horizontally for suspension. (head missing) [drawing 1:1]
1279 (none) (none) B15721 Clay duck. Like U.1278. P.
1280 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. Light. Clay. Pierced vertically for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1281 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. Like U.1280
1282 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. Like U.1280
1283 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. (head missing) Like U.1280.
1285 (none) (none) B15591 Stone amulet. (?) Black stone, polished. Conventionalized representation of two heads (possibly rams?) and bodied, shoulder to shoulder, the bodies adorned with incised lines - the back plain. (pierced vertically for suspension) [drawing 1:1]
1287 (none) (none) B15718 Clay Rosette. Fragment of light clay. Like U.1286, but larger. P.
1291 (none) (none) (none) Clay wheel. Drab clay. Like U.1290.
1292 (none) (none) B15709 Clay wheel. Drab clay. Like U.1290. P.
1294 (none) (none) (none) Clay wheel. Red clay. Plain edge, pierced through central boss.
1295 (none) (none) (none) Clay wheel. Red drab clay. Like U.1294.

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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