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)
1387 31-16-832 (none) (none) Figurine. Red clay: moulded. Nude female figure, chipped, and feet broken off.
1137 31-16-827 (none) (none) Clay Figurine. Fragment of bearded head and right shoulder. Moulded: light reddish clay. [drawing 1:1]
1365 31-16-815 (none) (none) Figurine. Fragment, below waist only. Reddish clay: moulded. Female(?) figure in elaborately flounced skirt.
1390 31-16-806 (none) (none) Drab clay fragment. Skirt of seated figure between 2 birds. Moulded.
1448 31-16-792 (none) (none) Clay Figurine. Fragment of, waist upwards only; green clay: Moulded
1458 31-16-789 (none) (none) Relief fragment. Clay. Lower part showing the waist and legs of a naked woman. The base is rounded out to form a stand.
2978 31-16-785 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude votaress with clasped hands. [drawing 1:1]
12059 31-16-775 (none) (none) Terracotta Figurine. Bottom portion missing. Male figure wearing high mitre-like headress, long pointed beard and flaunced kaukanes skirt. Arms bare & bent at elbow, hands held horizontally against waist. In each hadn a staff with the top ending in a ball which rests against shoulder. Possibly a mace? Bracelet on each wrist. Headdress incised with undulating lines radiating obliquely from top of head. Possibly a woollen cap?
12788 31-16-773 (none) (none) Terracotta figurines. Fragment. Moulded. Female figure, full face, from waist upwards; hands clasped below breasts, fillet round hair, torso nude.
12782 31-16-772 (none) (none) Terracotta figure. Moulded. Female, hands clasped, full face, seated, wearing horned cap and dress of pleated flounces to feet.
12761 31-16-768 (none) (none) Terracotta relief moulded. Nude female figure holding her breasts. Broken off below the knees. [drawing 1:1]
3064C 31-16-728 (none) (none) [A-D] Terracotta chariot-wheels. Drab ware, detached from cars. (C) Somewhat broken.
3162D 31-16-727 (none) (none) Terracotta chariot wheels.
13765B 31-16-370 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Diorite, grey. JN34. ? Cf RC36 [drawing]
12753A 30-12-541 (none) (none) [A-B] Clay 'rattles' [drawing]
15041 30-12-523 (none) (none) Weight Diorite? (elongated date stone) inscribed: 1 shekel. Type III.
11661 30-12-37 (none) (none) Cylinder. Grey steatite. 2 persons saluting crescent on staff. Inscribed : SudMI-IB dumu Ku-edin dam-gar.
2837 29-174-9 (none) (none) Clay vase. Buff ware with downturned lip. Type CLII. =RC. 135 =P.114
2797B 29-174-8 (none) (none) [A-C] Clay pot. Yellowish drab ware with rounded base. A and B straighter-sided than type. Type XI. =RC.81 (not p)
2797C 29-174-7 (none) (none) [A-C] Clay Pot. Yellowish drab ware with rounded base A and B staighter-sided than type.
2970 29-174-6 (none) (none) Pottery jar. Buffware with round base. Type CLXXXV, =RC.83 (not p)
2845B 29-174-24 (none) (none) Pottery jars. Large of buff ware. Round bottomed. B. slightly different and lip broken. Type CLVII, =RC.220, [the following would seem to apply to (B) only) (not p)
2610 29-174-20 (none) (none) Clay watering pot. Hand moulded, with spout and holes in top. [drawing 1:1] Type as U.1892
2985 29-174-19 (none) (none) Water pot. Drab ware with rounded base and sieve top. Type CLXXXVIII (not p)
2887 29-174-16 (none) (none) Pottery vase. Drab ware with pointed base and ribbed rim. Lip broken. Type CXLIII.

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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