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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)
6417 (none) 1927,0527.36 (none) Head of male. Limestone. Lost below neck, and back of head missing. White. Shaven and stone probably of priest, well known type rounded cheek, small but pronounced chin, wide nose, deep eye sockets and heavily incised eyebrows. Heavy ears. E. [drawing]
8292 (none) (none) B17196 Head of male. Unbaked clay. Not made in a mould. Traces of black paint under the eyes. Hole pierced through bottom of head vertically to hold a pole.
6782 (none) (none) B16228 Head of Ningal? Alabaster. White. Eyes inlaid in lapis lazuli. E. [illegible, possibly resinous] cast in BM 118564.
8472 (none) (none) B17197 Head of priest. Shaven? and shorn Limestone White. Face entirely lost - ears and back of head alone remain Hole pierced through bottom of neck to admit a pole.
6628 (none) 1927,0527.138 (none) Head of Puzuzu. Fair example. Steatite. Gray. E. [drawing 1:1]
6498 (none) (none) (none) Head of Puzuzu. Pendant. White frit. B. [drawing]
6578 (none) (none) (none) HEAD. STONE. - limestone, grey. Fragmentary. Traces of bitumen remain in the eye socket. Sumerian type, bald; rounded cheeks, heavy ears, well defined eye socket, eyeball protruding, bridge of nose heavy, distinct hollow running down from lower portion of nose to mouth following contour of cheek. Rounded chin. Right half of head missing, right eye, nose and mouth badly mutilated.
2720 (none) (none) (none) Ibex head. Buff clay ware of fine design. Sketch. [drawing]
7825 (none) (none) (none) Inscribed duck weight Diorite. A crescent. of Dungi; weight 5 mana. B Type VI. HC.37.
6157 (none) 1927,0527.33 (none) Inscribed foundation tablet. Black steatite. Inscribed rectangular, uninscribed side convex. 8 Columns. Shrine of dDim-tab-ba. Cf. U.6300, U.6302. Text: Dim-tab-ba Temple (2) E.
7903 (none) (none) (none) Ivory box lid. Circular. Convex above with line border and central rosette, 12-petalled: rabetted below to fit circular box.
2677 (none) (none) (none) Ivory pyxis. Fragmentary: Egyptian, presumably of earlier date than level where found. Carved in relief with figures of dancing-girls. Fitted with hatched lid on a pin (?). Copper wire (rivets?) let in to sides and twisted outside.
17869 32-40-316 (none) (none) Jeweller's trial piece (?). Fragment of a four-sided rod of white limestone: on one side a roughly cut intaglio; a small figure of a man copulating with a woman, the latter figure large and grotesque.
7907 (none) (none) (none) Kohl stick case. Ivory. Plain tube rounded at base. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
7908 (none) (none) (none) Kohl stick. Ivory. Rectangular in section, thickening towards the head and then sharpened to point.
2758 (none) (none) (none) Kudurru. Property: House of Sin-she-me Column I - 28 lines - Almost all defaced. Column II - 28 lines - [curses] good. Column III - 15 lines - half defaced. (Celephon. Illegible) Cassite period. Found with U.2760. H.C.
700 (none) 1935,1110.629 (none) Large clay cone, nearly complete. Base 2 column inscription, top right corner damaged 25 + 25 lines. Repeated on shaft, complete. Arad-Sin. Duplicate of U.19
781 (none) 1923,1110.10 (none) Large clay cone, shaft broken. Inscription of [three words crossed out] Rim-Sin. Dedicated to Nannar. Commemorating the king's building of edifice [written above crossed out word 'temple'] called E-ginabtum (some sort of storehouse, cf. P.A.XV. P.18.n10) to the god, and containing laudatory epithets applied to the moon.
780 (none) 1923,1110.7 (none) Large clay cone. Inscription of Rim [written above; Arab is scratched out] -Sin, dedication to Tammus. Recording the king's building of a temple called Ka'-li-sud for Tammuz, the rustic god, and praying that he may prosper and increase the flocks and herds.
642 (none) 1923,1110.6 (none) Large clay cone. On base 2 col inscription, damaged top right and bottom right corners, 17+19 lines. On shafts, parts of 2 column inscription. Inscription of R-Sin of Larsa.
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.
640 (none) 1923,1110.8 (none) Large clay cone. On base, 2 column inscription, 2nd column nearly all broken away. 1st col. 14 lines. On shaft, single column 28 lines. Inscription of Rim-Sin of Larsa. Recording his building of a temple? Called E-erim-kud-kud, for his own life and for that of his father Kudur-Mabug. The temple was dedicated to the war-god Nergal, to whom the king prays for success in battle.
6366 (none) (none) (none) Large oolite plate. To Ningal, his lady Ur-Nammu, the mighty man, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad, for his life has presented. Type XXX. B. H.C.
18854 35-1-127 (none) (none) Leg and foot of a statue. Clay painted red. Preserved from below the calf downwards. The foot seems to be wearing a shoe of coarsely knitted woo(?) The leg has been broken at the ankle in antiquity and mended with bitumen.
16547 31-43-51 (none) (none) Limestone cylinder seal Nin-es(?)-ba-na, Son of ... H.C. 30/II, 3.

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