Context Title: Room C18 | B 7-8     
Context Name (Publication): Giparu Room C.18     
Context Name (Excavation): Unit B7-8; M/2     
Context Name (Publication): Room C18 in Ur III period1     
Context Description: Storeroom?     
Culture/Period: Ur III; Old Babylonian; Kassite; Assyrian; Neo-Babylonian     
[1] UE 6 Plate 57

Files

Objects: Room C18 | B 7-8 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)
6612 (none) (none) B16665 Alabaster stela. Fragment: broken but complete. Lunar disk. Religious? Scene. Three figures only remain in relief on the left - shaven male figure, right arm extended, upper arm only remains. Lower part of body fragmentary. Figure is apparently in profile. Middle figure head lost: left arm mutilated and lower portion of dress lost: arms and apparently head in profile but body full face. Figure is clothed in flounced kaunakas skirt, 6 tiers of flounces showing. Dress covered upper arm but left forearm exposed. Left hand rests on chest, right arm held upright and hand lost. Behind, a clean shaven bald-headed male figure, 3/4 face, left arm held below breast; right arm bent at elbow and held upright carrying an object which may be a torch. Left hand holds a sword which runs diagonally across left side. Figure is apparently draped in a thin waist cloth, mutilated below waist. Typical Sumerian head. At back fragment of an inscription.
6365 (none) 1927,0527.67 (none) Fragment of alabaster vase. Linear inscription on the flat rim of the mouth. To d'ama-geshtin [x ], wife of Usal, for her life, for her children, has devoted this. E. H.C.
  • 2 Objects

Share

Email | Edit


Context

Ur > Giparu | KP > Ningal Temple | Unit C | A-P 1-8 > Room C18 | B 7-8