Title: Excavations at Ur of the Chaldees     
Date: 1923     
Author: Woolley, C. L.     
Journal: The Antiquaries Journal     
Volume: Volume 3     
Issue: Issue 4     
Pages: 311-333     

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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)
224 (none) (none) (none) Dark Steatite vase. fr. of rim. On the outside, carved in relief in very fine and free style: a male figure kneeling on l knee, body l, face front, holds up 2 vases of water each vase being grasped round the neck by the hand of other figures (mostly missing) in similar positions.
369 (none) 1923,1110.11 (none) Clay cone. Fragment of base. Inscription records the building of a temple for NIN-E-GAL for the life of Rim-Sin "and his own life." Shaft cut away. Partial duplicate c.f. SAKI p.218 Steintafel B. Placed in IN/No.3
642 (none) 1923,1110.6 (none) Large clay cone. On base 2 col inscription, damaged top right and bottom right corners, 17+19 lines. On shafts, parts of 2 column inscription. Inscription of R-Sin of Larsa.
781 (none) 1923,1110.10 (none) Large clay cone, shaft broken. Inscription of [three words crossed out] Rim-Sin. Dedicated to Nannar. Commemorating the king's building of edifice [written above crossed out word 'temple'] called E-ginabtum (some sort of storehouse, cf. P.A.XV. P.18.n10) to the god, and containing laudatory epithets applied to the moon.

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