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 Clay Seals and Sealings

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
17678 32-40-324 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Eye; joined ladders. On photo: U.17679.
7920 (none) (none) B16900 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Scene of worship before Nannar. Enthronoed Nannar wearing horned headdress extends right hand to greet 2 standing gods also wearing horned headdress and with left arm upraised. Attributes: crescent moon and spear? with a shaped top.
17322 31-43-18 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Light brown. Trial piece. Unfinished.
17325 31-43-40 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Grey. One roughly cut human figure and second carrying an animal (?) two spears? [second carrying an animal has been crossed out on catalog card]
17314 31-43-63 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Unpierced. Unfinished. A reserve for an inscription which has not been inserted.
17312 (none) 1931,1010.26 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 standing figures.
7121 (none) (none) B16289 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Palm branch between 2 worshippers, who hold hand upraised. Attributes: Crescent moon, Rampant Lion. 2400 BC. E.
17332 31-43-17 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Fragment. 3 geese (?).
17328 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. One human figure thus [drawing] and a small animal (?) roughly incised.
17763 32-40-329 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Obscured; 2 lines of inscription. Adoring figure of goddess separated by star on staff.
18180 32-40-328 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Two ostriches (?).
18343 33-35-175 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Coarse work, much damaged, and apparently unfinished. Men fighting animals.
16107 31-43-22 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Reddish stone. Linear design. Archaic.
16180 31-43-3 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink marble. Two rows of deeply incised circles.
18248 33-35-172 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Two men fighting a lion. Poor work and in poor condition.
17726 32-40-330 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. 2 men fighting a lion.
18457 33-35-178 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Milky crystal. Geometrical (?) designs in 2 registers.
7658 (none) (none) B16890 Cylinder seal. Marble? White. Hero between two rampant bulls? On either side of bulls a rampant lion. Between the lions a post surmounted by a star.
7617 (none) (none) B16877 Cylinder seal. Marble. White. 4 bulls rampant of which 3 have human heads, bearded and horned. On either side a rampant lion. Grotesque figure with himan body, animal's head, (possibly a donkey's head??) conical headdress and pig tail? grasps one lion by the tail. c. 3000BC
1706 (none) (none) B15594 Cylinder seal. Light brown stone. With traces of archaic design of fishes.
1054 (none) (none) B15276 Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Very small.
18365 33-35-176 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 3 standing figures.
1734 (none) (none) B15590 Cylinder seal. grey stone. Broken. Upper part only of introduction scene with crescent moon in front of god. P.
18450 33-35-177 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey stone. Introduction scene with 1 seated and 2 standing figures and 2 columns of inscription: the figures much erased.
1733 (none) (none) B15589 Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Very scratchily engraved on one side only with design of 2 men fighting a lion. P. [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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Sibling Locations

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