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Museum: BM     
Media Title: Field Photographs     
Description: Woolley: U. 641, U. 779.     
Project: Ur     
Photo Type: GN     
Negative or Positive: Negative     
BM Negative Number: 87     
BM Photo ID: GN0087     
PM U Print No.: 87     
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PS Negative: 42704     
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Ur of the Chaldees:      
Additional Comments: Two inscribed cones     
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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)
641 (none) 1923,1110.5 (none) Large clay cone. On base 2 column inscription, slightly damaged left top+bottom corners. 25 + 24 lines. On shaft: beginnings of 25 lines. Inscription of Arad-Sin. Recording his building of a temple to the goddess Onanna, called E-dilmun[na, on behalf of his own life. Inscription duplicate of [underlined]Clay.Miscell.Inscription no. 31. 113914 (Hall's coll.) is fragment of another duplicate.
779 (none) 1923,1110.9 (none) Clay Cone, base of larger. Inscription of Arad-Sin. Recording the king's building of a temple to the war-god Ilbaba, in gratitude for victory over his enemies.
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