Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards
Omeka ID: | 4784 |
Transcription: |
M/2 ? C 18 KP Below - brick pavement o - NE end o - room was found a fr. of an alabaster stela with relief on obverse + traces of inscription on reverse thus U. 6612 [drawing (artifact: fragmentary object with relief 2/5] Vol IV pl. 93 [struck through] |
Omeka Label: | Ur_Notes_v4_p053 |
BM Volume: | 4 |
BM Page Number: | 53 |
Media Title: | Woolley's Field Note Cards |
Page Number: | 53 |
Volume: | v4 |
BM Archive Number: | 194 |
BM Description: | KP-Square-M2-C18 |
Omeka Tags: | drawing, grid, KP, U.6612 |
Omeka Type: | 27 |
Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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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. |
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