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)
18590 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Im-dugud with 2 gazelles: woman wearing Kaukanes and holding up a cup: a second figure many with a cup on a stand (?) and a drinking tube? Fine archaic work.
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.
18335 (none) (none) (none) Copper bolt. With shaft round in section and gilt head.
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]
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
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.
18352 (none) (none) (none) Tortoise of grey steatite. L. 23mm
18294 (none) (none) (none) Bitumen mace head. [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.
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.
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.
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]
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]
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]
2826 (none) 1927,1003.242 (none) Fragment of inlay. Shell, pierced at back for fixing and part of presentation scene; both figures have crowns and long hair and one carries a wand. Probably 1st Dynasty. [drawing 1:1]
17659 (none) (none) (none) Copper spearhead. Broken but complete. Type not RC [drawing]
18587 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Much decayed. A naked hero, kneeling, holds two antelopes by their hind legs. Archaic style.
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]
18347 33-35-155 (none) (none) Fruit of gold and carnelian. A simple bead of carnelian shaped thus [reference to drawing], through which is a slender gold stem with a rounded cap above.
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]
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