Field Photographs
| Museum: | BM |
| Media Title: | Field Photographs |
| Description: | Woolley: A. Steatite vase fragment U 239. B. Steatite vase fragment U 224. AJ: Fragments of decorated steatite vases. |
| Project: | Ur |
| Photo Type: | GN |
| Negative or Positive: | Negative |
| BM Negative Number: | 23 |
| BM Photo ID: | GN0023 |
| PM U Print No.: | 23 |
| Comments: | |
| PS Negative: | 42638 |
| Antiquaries Journal: | III/4 XXXIV 1 |
| Related Media: | Ur Excavations IV |
| Excavations at Ur: | |
| Ur of the Chaldees: | |
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| Location Description: |
| 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. |
| 239 | (none) | (none) | B14968, B14968 | Steatite vase. Fr of On the outside, a bull carved with the body in low relief, the head projecting in the round: behind, hind quarters of a second bull (there were presumably 4 on this vase). The body of the bull and the field of the vase are decorated with bone inlay, trefoils and dots, the moon, the sun and geometrical figures. Very fine work indeed. Underneath, on the base, remains of one side of a column of inscription. |
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