Room 2

Context Title: Room 2     
Context Name (Publication): Room 21     
Context Description: Court1     
Context Description: The court (Room 2) was paved with bricks 0.30 m. sq.; its south wall had twelve courses of burnt brick with mud brick above, the north wall was destroyed to below floor level. At its west end were two sanctuaries each consisting of two small rooms, a fore-chamber and an inner shrine.2     
[1] Imported from BM list of contexts.
[2] UE 7 p.133

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
16427 31-43-173 (none) (none) Head of a ram. Dark steatite. Cult object for fixing on a pole. The neck and head made in 2 pieces; the eyes originally inlaid (inlay missing); perfect except for chips out of one horn and the ears. The neck and the head are covered with a fleece conventially rendered in small locks, the face smooth, the horns crinkled. Very good work. [drawing 1:1]
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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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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References

Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan . (1976) Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.