Context Title: House A | KPS A     
Context Name (Excavation): Unit A in KPS     
Context Description: Domestic House dating to the Kassite Period. SE side of a street. Walls were often altered and patched.     
Culture/Period: Kassite     
Location Type: Domestic     

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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)
6283A (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 4 clay vases light drab. Type LXXIV =RC.170
6283B (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 4 clay vases light drab. Type LXXIV =RC.170
6283C (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 4 clay vases light drab. Type LXXIV =RC.170
6283D (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 4 clay vases light drab. Type LXXIV =RC.170
6342 (none) (none) (none) Clay sealing with seal impression. Royal seal. [First column of text on card] dIbi ilSin God of his land mighty king of Ur King of the 4 regions of the world. [Second column of text on card] To Ur-nigin-gar the archivist (ga-dub-ba) son of Ar-shi-ih his servant it (the seal) has been presented. [the following is below both columns on the card] Presentation to seated Sin. H.C.
6343 (none) (none) (none) Clay sealing with seal impression. Royal seal. [First column of text on card] dIbi ilSin: God of the land mighty king of Ur king of the 4 regions of the world. [Second column of text on card] Da-da pateris of Nippur Scon of Ur(-sag...) patersi of Nippur thy servant. [the following is below both columns on the card] Presentation to seated moon-god. H.C.
6407 (none) (none) (none) Clay jug. Light drab. Type [LXXIX TEO has been crossed out] RC.206
6408 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Dark drab. Type LX TEO =RC.108a.
6410 (none) (none) (none) Alabaster fragment. Figurine in low relief on one side of man holding an object against his chest in left hand. Next to him a pig beneath an ark. On the other side a peacock also beneath the ark. Borrom of ark represented by plain band 1mm in thickness rising upwards at the end in a curve. B. [drawing 1:2]
6449A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 clay vases. Light drab. Type CCXLV or TO/23 = RC.145 (?) =1L.115 [drawing]
6449B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 clay vases. Light drab. Type CCXLV or TO/23 = RC.145 (?) =1L.115 [drawing]
6450A (none) (none) (none) [This catalog card contains a number of notes discussing typology, these have been transcribed and may contradict]. Clay vases. Light drab. Type [CCXLIII crossed out] CCXVII = 1L.112. Not RC or L. Should it not be Larsa? Also please supply drawing. Original type and [illegible] and tracing of the Larsa type (old 217); I suggest that this should be a variant of that type. Gave it one [illegible] the type in (217); Yes, a shaped [previous word unclear] variant of (217), but the extra drawing and not [illegible as the two are virtually identical.
6450B (none) (none) B16639 [This catalog card contains a number of notes discussing typology, these have been transcribed and may contradict]. Clay vases. Light drab. Type [CCXLIII crossed out] CCXVII = 1L.112. Not RC or L. Should it not be Larsa? Also please supply drawing. Original type and [illegible] and tracing of the Larsa type (old 217); I suggest that this should be a variant of that type. Gave it one [illegible] the type in (217); Yes, a shaped [previous word unclear] variant of (217), but the extra drawing and not [illegible as the two are virtually identical.
6451 (none) 1927,0527.272 (none) Clay jug. Light drab. Type LXXIX T.E.O.. =RC.208.
6463 (none) 1927,0527.60 (none) Semi-circular bar of white marble. U-shaped = ends flat, near each end a small hole bored through stone on the diameter of the semi-circule - broken in antiquity and riveted. Suggest that this is the loop ornament figured in early sculpture on door jambs or on lances set upright by the sides of doors: the ends might fit into holes in the wooden upright and the small holes would serve for attachment to same by means of copper wires. E. [drawing]
6470 (none) (none) (none) Limestone bowl. Jagged edge. White. Type CLIII (stone vase types) =RC.48 [drawing] B.
6471 (none) 1927,0527.133 (none) Group of beads. Some of Variegated glass but decayed. Date 700-650 BC.
6488 (none) (none) (none) Marble palette? Mottled. Flate one side, curved on the other, rounded at corners. Hole pierced in each corner. E.
6571 (none) 1927,0527.289 (none) Clay bowl fragmentary. Glazed. Light drab and trace of blue on outside.
6632 (none) (none) B16597 Clay bowl. Reddish. Star shaped design [reference to drawing] incised on the convex bottom of the bowl. Cf. Type 265 in album. [drawing 1:2]
6756A (none) (none) B16569 [A-B] 2 Rams. Grey gypsum. Protomoi. (1) E [UPM or BM] (1) B [Baghdad]
6756B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Rams. Grey gypsum. Protomoi. (1) E [UPM or BM] (1) B [Baghdad]
6795 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis lazuli, gold and paste.
6796 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Carnelian beads. E.
6797 (none) (none) (none) Pendant. Silver. Set with Lapiz lazuli. E.
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