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)
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]
1220 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of terracotta figure of man wearing high peaked cap. Eyes applied. [drawing]
1221 (none) (none) (none) Crumpled fragment of gold foil.
1222 (none) (none) (none) Small 3-barbed bronze arrowhead with socket for shaft.
1223 (none) (none) (none) Black steatite cylinder seal with device god facing right separated from worshipper and an introducing god by figures of a sitting dog (left) and scorpion (right). Over the god's raised left hand is the crescent. Inscribed: d.Sanas S.a-a
1224 (none) (none) (none) Shell cylinder seal, broken and in bad condition. The device appears to show two confronting winged animals.
1227 (none) (none) B15648 Upper part of a large terracotta relief; a female-headed figure holds before its waist a kind of tray on which stand 2 small human (female)? Figures and 2 uncertain objects lie horizontally before them. Lower part of the relief missing. P. [drawing]
1230 (none) (none) (none) Upper part of terracotta relief of a god, bearded, with horned headdress, holding 2 staves against his shoulders. [drawing]
1231 (none) (none) B15672 Upper part of a clay figuine of a man in cone shaped cap, with staff (?) over rt. shoulder; left arm broken away, eyes applied. The "Staff" curves over shoulder into a crook shape.
1233 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief apparently showing a standing god with hands clasped at waist. In much worn condition and almost obliterated.
1234 (none) (none) B15669 Terracotta relief of woman, wearing skirt, carrying child, with right arm round its waist, left round its knees. P. [drawing]
1237 (none) (none) (none) Portion of a terracotta relief, showing head of a goddess, similar to the preceding. Remainder broken away.
1238 (none) (none) (none) Portion of terracotta relief, head similar to the preceding.
1239 (none) (none) B15644 Part of a terracotta relief of a standing draped woman. Left hand at waist, right hand hanging straight; hair elaborately dressed on both sides of face. Light buff clay. P.
1240 (none) (none) (none) Upper part of terracotta relief of woman, apparently naked, standing with hands clasped under breasts. Lower part broken or missing. Light buff clay.
1241 (none) (none) (none) Upper part of a Terracotta relief of woman, as preceding number. Lower part, below arms broken away.
1243 (none) (none) (none) Lower part of terracotta figurine of naked woman. Similar to U.1148.
1245 (none) (none) (none) Upper part of terracotta relief showing horned headdress and head of a god: remainder entirely broken away.
1247 (none) (none) B15698 Portion terracotta model probably the head (or foot) of a bed, of which 2 legs remain. The head is decorated inside, quarterly with low reliefs of geese or ducks, and cocks. P. [drawing]
1252 (none) (none) B15708 Clay model, a child's toy representing a man mounted upon a horse, which has two heads looking towards each other. The upper part of the rider is broken, and the reins(?) are represented in a curious manner. The whole stands on a clay base with holes for wheels and for a string to pull it along. P. [drawing]
1253 31-16-995 (none) (none) Fragment of a terrracotta model. Apparently part of the reins from a toy similar to the preceding.
1254 (none) (none) (none) Fragment terra-cotta figurine representing middle part of naked woman: remainder broken away.
1255 (none) (none) B15710 Child's rattle in baked clay, double cogged edge and perforations in the sides. P. [drawing]
1256 (none) (none) (none) Clay model of wheel; usual type; red ware, the circumferential coggings worn away.

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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