 | 6607 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone fragment. Pink engraved. Trial piece on conventional subjects. On one side above unfinished seated god, below seated god left hand extended and holding [reference to drawing] shaped object. At feet corn sheaf. On the other side unfinished standing figures. B. |
| 18118 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Very dark steatite. Decorated on the outside with a procession of 5 bulls standing with the bodies in profile and the head turned outwards: bodies in fairly high relief, heads in the round. Over the back of each animal an ear of barley. Very fine work. A chip out of the (plain) rim and a larger break which has taken off the head of one of the balls = otherwise in perfect condition, straight-sided bowl. |
 | 7145 | (none) | (none) | B16226 | Stone bowl. Fragment of
Dark steatite. On the outside, a row of scorpions carved in low relief. |
 | 8190 | (none) | (none) | B17036 | Stone bowl.
[drawing]
Type XII, but with rounded base.
Photo 841 |
| 210 | (none) | 1923,1110.43 | (none) | Stone bowl Fragment. (joined up from 2) of a bowl of fine-grained black stone: on the outside carved in low relief, long-horned oxen: of one the whole body and one horn remaining, head missing: of the other, only a fragment of the hind-quarters: the tail of the second animal is short and curled and it may well be other than an ox. |
| 3173 | (none) | 1927,1003.59 | (none) | Stele of dUtu-hegal. White limestone. Fragment. Has part of [crescent drawing] and inscription To d(Nannar?), king of ( ), his king, for the life of Utu-hegal the mighty hero, king of Uruk, king of the 4 regions of the world, (x, has) (devoted this?) H.C. |
| 6691 | (none) | (none) | B16682 | Stela.
Blue grey.
Fragment.
Above: 3 male fig[ure]s in relief, body full face, head arms and legs in profile, clothed in flounced kaukanes sheep skin coats. Right hands over breast, heads turned to the left but faces are lost. Traces of finely cut hair on back of head of middle figure. Dress typically Sumerian. Below waist consists of 2 tiers of wide flounces, 6 pleats covering front of body. Above waist garment rendered by fine and numerous parallel wavy lines.
Below the male figs is a second tier of female figures of which only 2 remain. Primitive inscription above heads. Female figs are in the same attitude as male; head in profile, body full face. Figs badly mutilated and lost below breast. Heads look to left, hands of first female crossed over breast, fingers pointing up to shoulders. Both shoulders covered by garment represented by fine wavy lines as on upper portion of male figs. Hair tucked up in a bunch round right ear and flowing down side. Traces of unsmoothed edges & holes indicate that outline of figs was made by a drill. cf. Stela of the Vultures Pre-Sargonid.
Broken inscription: ...ka, he has filled abundantly, the Eanaka, he has replenished.
H.C. Linear writing of Ur Nina of Lagash.
(Found out of position). E. [A note appears on the back of the catalog card, writing largely illegible] |
 | 6352 | (none) | (none) | B16229 | Steatite(?) [diorite is struck through] statue of Ningal. Presented by Enannatum son of Ishme-Dagan For his life.
Upper part broken.
Inscript. on 3 sides of the throne.
Ur Texts, Vol. I, No. 103
E.
CLW. Enter in catalog, Vol. VII
HC. |
 | 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. |
 | 16546 | 31-43-36 | (none) | (none) | Steatite cylinder seal. Ur-gar(?). HC.30/II, 2. |
 | 16021 | 31-43-25, 31-43-25 | (none) | (none) | Steatite Cylinder seal. Nana son of Gudea,the jeweller. HC.30/I.7. UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 178 | (none) | 1923,1110.46 | (none) | Statuette. Red stone. A winged bull or sphinx (?), couched, the head missing: in the back a small cup-like hollow. FGN drawing. [drawing] |
| 17832 | (none) | 1932,1008.32 | (none) | Statuette of seated bull.
White calcite.
With square hole through the back to take an upright -
The muzzle damaged by decay. |
| 2732 | (none) | 1927,1003.58 | (none) | Statue of Da-da-i-lum. Fragment of bust. Inscription of 2 lines on right shoulder: Da-da-i-lum Si-lim ilZu-fa = Dadailum Protection of Sin. Name is semitic and also the prayer Silu(m) protection, and the writing to Zu-en (= Sin) H.C. |
| 19974 | 35-1-18 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. [drawing 1:1] |
 | 17100 | 31-43-67 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Steatite. Black. Conoid. Bearded male figure holding an offering before a throne (?) or altar with a high back in which is planted a spear. Emblems. Fish and crescent moon. [drawing] |
| 17797 | 32-40-345 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Shell.
One side flattened and rough representation of animal drilled and scratched on.
[drawing 1:1] |
 | 16211 | 31-43-1 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Pink limestone. In the form of a recumbent calf; on the flat back a rough design of 2 animals done with drill-holes and engraved lines. This is an early Sumerian piece which is found ina Persian period grave, and must have been an antiquity. [drawing 1:1] |
 | 16117 | 31-43-66 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Mauve chalcedony(?) Concial-suspended by copper wire. Roughly engraved with figure of a man. [drawing] |
 | 17340 | 31-43-11 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Limestone (?) Grey. Oval. One standing figure. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18337 | 33-35-169 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, with convex tip, pierced horizontally. Subject: 2 animals, a third animal and an unrecognizable object: engraved mostly with the circular drill. |
 | 13722 | 31-17-24 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Translucent white quartzite(?) oval, flat below & rounded above: on the flat base, traces of an animal design mostly done with a drill-point, in dots joined up by rough engraving; the design really unrecognisable now. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18284 | 33-35-170 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal.
Facetted conical: chalcedony.
Persian type.
Two standing figures worshipping before an altar: crescent above. |
| 6020 | (none) | 1927,0527.201 | (none) | Stamp seal, flattened hemispherical
-obverse convex- top with decorative workings - 3 parallel lines running across centre and 4 concentric circles in corners.
White steatite.
Two Sumerian - man & wife
bring as an offering a
goat (?) and a vase of milk.
diam. 0022
width 0004
About BC 3500.
photograph 554
E. |
 | 7916 | (none) | (none) | B16906 | Stamp flat seal. One side convex. Calcite. Greyish. Above a reclining beast, possibly a jackal? and below a second beast with big head. |