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)
11650 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Fragment of fish-list? (account of Zag - ha(=essad) i.e. net fulls of fish? for certain days of 6th. month - - - Vc.) cf. 11601
11661 30-12-37 (none) (none) Cylinder. Grey steatite. 2 persons saluting crescent on staff. Inscribed : SudMI-IB dumu Ku-edin dam-gar.
11676 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of Vase (calcite) part of 3 signs.
1168 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. With device of winged animal rampant between two supporting human figures. The animal faces right, and between left man and the animal a scorpion stands in the field. Inscribed: -Ba-da-da mar Ma-li.
1175 (none) (none) (none) Clay Figurine. Drab clay. Woman nursing child. Very roughly modeled (broken). [drawing 1:2]
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.
1189 (none) (none) (none) Black steatite cylinder seal with rather careless design of the "introduction" scene, the god facing right, with crescent before him.
1192 (none) (none) (none) Portion of a shaft of a clay cone, with second column (13 lines) of an inscription of Lipit-Ishtar, king of Isin. Duplicate of U.4, and SAKI, p.204. 3 and clay, Miscellaneous Inscription no. 27. P.
1197 (none) 1924,0920.389 (none) 5 fragments (3 joined) of the base of a large clay cone, with traces of inscription of Kudur-Mabug, king of Larsa. Duplicate of U.212, U.217, U.325, U.333, etc. Joined piece.
1197A (none) (none) (none) (none)
1197B (none) (none) (none) (none)
12058 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis Lazuli, geometric design. 2 registers. [drawing of design]
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?
1206 (none) (none) B15612, B15612 Pot sherd, upon the outside of which promiscuous cuneiform signs have been inscribed in an archaic hand, presumably as practice. P.
1209 (none) (none) (none) Small plain pot, very roughly made, complete, light buff color. Type XXXVII (about). =P.113
1210 (none) (none) (none) Small plain pot. Buff color. Complete, chipped one side. Type XCIII approximately. =P.108a
1211 (none) (none) B15695 Terra cotta face or mask, broken away from rest of object. Resembles Greek comic mask, but may be face of Pazuzu. [drawing] P Photo 174
1212 (none) (none) (none) Lower portion of moulded terracotta relief representing a god or goddess standing on back of a lion advancing right. [drawing]
1213 (none) (none) (none) Upper part of moulded terracotta relief in light yellow clay. Female figure with headdress: right hand at waist, left hand held up. [drawing]
1214 (none) 1924,0920.110 (none) Terracotta, moulded in three-quarter round. Figure of bearded god from waist upwards, hands clasped.
1215 (none) 1935,0113.22 (none) Terracotta moulded in high relief. These greater figure of a woman wearing robe, (in style of Gudea period), hands clasped before waist. [drawing]
1216 (none) (none) B15636 Small terracotta moulded relief, the lower end bent forward. Female figure possibly goddess, with elaborate headdress, wearing long flounced robe, hands clasped at waist. [drawing]
1217 (none) 1924,0920.99 (none) Terracotta moulded relief of naked goddess, both hands holding breasts: head missing. [drawing]
1218 31-16-838 (none) (none) Part of terracotta moulded relief of naked woman holding child at her breast. The child sits upon the left hand and is supported by right. Head and fast of the relief missing.
1219 (none) (none) (none) Part of a rough terracotta figure of man in tall overhanging cap. The eyes applied by separate spots of clay. Lower body and arms missing. [drawing]

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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