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

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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     

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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)
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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