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)
16930 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Clean-shaven man, holding staff in right hand, left hand to ... (A) Broken off at waist, weak impression. Type XI, c.4.
1706 (none) (none) B15594 Cylinder seal. Light brown stone. With traces of archaic design of fishes.
17121A 31-43-10 (none) (none) Seals. Two steatite plaques, rectangular and oblong, flat on one side and gabled on the other, the gabled side pierced perhaps for a metal ring handle. A) [drawing 1:1] thus, with rough design of a scorpion. B) smaller but apparently with the same design (much worn)
17314 31-43-63 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Unpierced. Unfinished. A reserve for an inscription which has not been inserted.
17317 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Two standing figures and a winged dragon.
17319 31-43-18 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Animals (?) at gate of shrine course cutting.
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]
17328 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. One human figure thus [drawing] and a small animal (?) roughly incised.
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]
17332 31-43-17 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Fragment. 3 geese (?).
1734 (none) (none) B15590 Cylinder seal. grey stone. Broken. Upper part only of introduction scene with crescent moon in front of god. P.
17341 31-43-76 (none) (none) Button seal. Steatite(?). White. Fragment. Half only remains. Animals. With a boss on the upper side perforated for suspension.
17662 32-40-319 (none) (none) Seal. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1]
17678 32-40-324 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Eye; joined ladders. On photo: U.17679.
17702 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Clay. Tree encircled with fillet between 2 adoring figures; crescent on staff.
17726 32-40-330 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. 2 men fighting a lion.
17763 32-40-329 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Obscured; 2 lines of inscription. Adoring figure of goddess separated by star on staff.
17797 32-40-345 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Shell. One side flattened and rough representation of animal drilled and scratched on. [drawing 1:1]
17871 32-40-326 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Badly chipped. Presentation scene with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and 3 columns of inscription.
17877 32-40-323 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity & standing attendant. Poor cutting.
18167 32-40-320 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Of dark and light grey pebble. Rectangular, with slightly convex top, pierced longitudinally. Rough design on base, of a man with his arms raised and his legs twisted up in an impossible fashion (?) [drawing]
18171 32-40-343 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Clay, baked, convex sides. Tree, ladder and rosettes. Very lightly scratched design.
18179 32-40-331 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Glazed frit, glaze perished. Kid and palm tree.
18180 32-40-328 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Two ostriches (?).

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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