Title: The "Archaic I" Phase of the Ziqqurat Terrace at Ur: A Contextual Re-Assessment.      
Date: 2003     
Author: Benati, Giacomo     
Journal: Mesopotamia     

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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)
17625A 32-40-317 (none) (none) Inlay. Shell: [A-F] Six fragments of white shell cut in strips 38mm wide and decorated with 3 horizontal rows of 'mountain' design: the top and bottom rows are merely outlined with a double incised line which was filled in with black: the middle row is champleve and filled in with bright red paste of which a good deal is preserved. [drawing]
17625B 32-40-318 (none) (none) Inlay. Shell: [A-F] Six fragments of white shell cut in strips 38mm wide and decorated with 3 horizontal rows of 'mountain' design: the top and bottom rows are merely outlined with a double incised line which was filled in with black: the middle row is champleve and filled in with bright red paste of which a good deal is preserved. [drawing]
17625C (none) (none) (none) Inlay. Shell: [A-F] Six fragments of white shell cut in strips 38mm wide and decorated with 3 horizontal rows of 'mountain' design: the top and bottom rows are merely outlined with a double incised line which was filled in with black: the middle row is champleve and filled in with bright red paste of which a good deal is preserved. [drawing]
17625D (none) 1932,1008.34 (none) Inlay. Shell: [A-F] Six fragments of white shell cut in strips 38mm wide and decorated with 3 horizontal rows of 'mountain' design: the top and bottom rows are merely outlined with a double incised line which was filled in with black: the middle row is champleve and filled in with bright red paste of which a good deal is preserved. [drawing]
17625E (none) 1932,1008.35 (none) Inlay. Shell: [A-F] Six fragments of white shell cut in strips 38mm wide and decorated with 3 horizontal rows of 'mountain' design: the top and bottom rows are merely outlined with a double incised line which was filled in with black: the middle row is champleve and filled in with bright red paste of which a good deal is preserved. [drawing]
17659 (none) (none) (none) Copper spearhead. Broken but complete. Type not RC [drawing]
18225 (none) (none) (none) Gold bar. Rectangulare in section, one end hammered flat, the other bent and broken.
18226 (none) (none) (none) Sheet gold. a strip of fairly heavy metal bent double lengthways as if to form an edging, but the sharp point is solid.
18232 (none) 1933,1013.1 (none) Stone vase. Fragments of stalagmitic calcite with deeply colored veining. Type. On it, part of an inscription.
18236 (none) (none) (none) Gold foil. Fragment of folded up into a sort of rod: no real shape: very thin metal.
18251 (none) 1933,1013.90 (none) Fragment of inlay. Shell. On one side, plain grooving, part of a hair pattern (probably for the flounce of a skirt): on the other side, very faint, a human figure, from the neck downwards, wearing a kaunakes and advancing right. Top missing. The inlay has been reused and the figure design seems to be the earlier.
18253 33-35-189 (none) (none) Clay seal impression. Archaic. Broken and incomplete. A naked man fighting, two heraldically crossed animals: a crouched bull and a seated goddess.
18280 33-35-258 (none) (none) Clay label. Dark blackish-brown clay. Oval, with string hole through its leng and side plain, one roughly incised on the dry or nearly dry clay, thus: [reference to to drawing] [drawing 1:1]
18294 (none) (none) (none) Bitumen mace head. [drawing]
18309 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of inlay. White limestone. From a frieze of Al Obaid type. A man, naked except for a loin cloth, kneeling on one knee and wielding a paddle or punt-pole (?). The head missing.
18310 33-35-260 (none) (none) Clay seal impression. In a rectangular frame a guilloche, the strands made up of 3 narrow bands at one end, remains of an animal scene.
18311 33-35-261 (none) (none) Clay seal impression. Long strip of clay on which a very fair impression. A standing figure (?): before him a small figure fallen backwards (?): behind him two dwarflike figure in violent action (?) = above a guilloche: beyond them, two rampant beasts heraldically crossed (?)
18313A (none) (none) (none) Inlay. Fragments of grey steatite. Hair of head or beard from a large figure. [drawing] [A] One large piece thus [reference to drawing]. [B] One fragment from the upper part perhaps fitting on, [C] and one single curl
18313B (none) (none) (none) Inlay. Fragments of grey steatite. Hair of head or beard from a large figure. [drawing] [A] One large piece thus [reference to drawing]. [B] One fragment from the upper part perhaps fitting on, [C] and one single curl
18314A (none) 1933,1013.99 (none) Inlay. 2 fragments of, fitting together. Grey steatite. The hair of a large figure, carved in horizontal ripples with the single hairs denoted by roughly engraved wavy lines. [drawing]
18314B (none) 1933,1013.100 (none) Inlay. 2 fragments of, fitting together. Grey steatite. The hair of a large figure, carved in horizontal ripples with the single hairs denoted by roughly engraved wavy lines. [drawing]
18324 33-35-156 (none) (none) Gold handle? A ring of deeply fluted metal, bent over and one end (for attachment?) flattened out on this is a cross lightly engraved [drawing 1:1]
18325 33-35-262 (none) (none) Clay seal impression. Men and animals fighting. [Note on back of card reads Check in Catalog of Vol. IV, was there, but has been removed. The note is signed [illegible], and dated 1936.]
18335 (none) (none) (none) Copper bolt. With shaft round in section and gilt head.
18338 (none) 1933,1013.93 (none) Wig of dark steatite, for a small male figure the wig is complete. The hair is parted down the middle, then confined by three broad braided tresses wound roudn the head: a fringe comes over the forehead: the back hair falls in a plaited mass over the shoulders.
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