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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)
2749B (none) (none) (none) (A) Diorite Door-socket.; (B) Copper pole shoe} Both same inscription: Ur Engur, king of Ur, who has bult the house of Nannar. in text: 3rd Dynasty Terrace (13)
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.
2674 (none) 1927,1003.60 (none) Door-socket of Sin-balatsu-iqbi (time of Ashurbanapal) shakkanak (vice regent) of Ur son of Ningal-iddinna. Restoration of Elemen-ni-gur. In particular of the gate-way to Esag-dili (the Ziggurat). The gate was built in the middle of the terrace of the temenos, on the procession way (! e hal-la-ta du-a). The door was of boxwood, fixed with bronze pegs in massive walls, had a gold USH, a silverlock, silver plated bronze binding (?). See notes. H.C.
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.
2514 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Buff clay. Nude female, mitred and with necklace. Legs missing below the knee. [drawing 1:1]
3020 (none) 1927,1003.6 (none) Foundation tablet of Warad-Sin. Soapstone. Warad-Sin, the mighty man, who takes care of Ur, king of Larsa, king of Sumer and Akkad son of Kudur-Mabug, adda of Emulbal. In order to enlarge Ur, to enclose its sides, to gain a great name, Nannar my king, has listened unto me. The great wall, raised like a mountain, that might not be undermined, which strikes wonder, I built to him. This wall Nannar fortifies the foundation of the land such is its name... etc Cf. brick in SAKI p.213.B. Same text text on copper tablet U.3021. H.C.
3021 (none) 1927,1003.6 (none) Foundation tablet of Narad-Sin. Copper. Same text on soapstone tablet U.3020.
3019 (none) (none) (none) Foundation tablets. Kurigalzu. Limestone. To dNin-BAD-LA, his king, Kurigalzu minister of Enlil, mighty king, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the 4 regions of the world. The Ga-(bur ), the old house decayed from ancient days, he built, and restored to his place. Same text on Copper U.3022. H.C.
3022 (none) (none) (none) Foundation tablet. Kurigalzu. Copper. Same text as Limestone tablet U.3019.
457A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Gold bracelets. A pair, very heavy, of solid gold: plain, but with heads thus: [drawing]
457B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Gold bracelets. A pair, very heavy, of solid gold: plain, but with heads. [drawing]
458B (none) 1923,1110.165 (none) [A-D] 4 gold pendants. Thin gold on a core. Ring for suspension above: body arch-shaped with embossed ornament similar on both sides but that on one side the center of the rosette is inlaid with reddish paste. Below, 6 rings for suspension. Phil. A only [only one was sent to UPM] [drawing 1:1]
458C (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 4 gold pendants. Thin gold on a core. Ring for suspension above: body arch-shaped with embossed ornament similar on both sides but that on one side the center of the rosette is inlaid with reddish paste. Below, 6 rings for suspension. Phil. A only [only one was sent to UPM] [drawing 1:1]
458D (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 4 gold pendants. Thin gold on a core. Ring for suspension above: body arch-shaped with embossed ornament similar on both sides but that on one side the center of the rosette is inlaid with reddish paste. Below, 6 rings for suspension. Phil. A only [only one was sent to UPM] [drawing 1:1]
6410 (none) (none) (none) Alabaster fragment. Figurine in low relief on one side of man holding an object against his chest in left hand. Next to him a pig beneath an ark. On the other side a peacock also beneath the ark. Borrom of ark represented by plain band 1mm in thickness rising upwards at the end in a curve. B. [drawing 1:2]
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]
6754A (none) 1927,0527.92 (none) [A-B] 2 copper graves. Both shaped with flat rims and two handles at each end. Covered over by wooden lid let down into ground by ropes. Corbelled burnt brick box built over them. Traces of rope remain on one handle of (A). Neo-Babylonian [Neo-Babylonian has been crossed out]. Entered in [illegible, maybe tab or lab] and no graves P.1, 2. E.
539 (none) (none) (none) Tablet, fragment of. With seal impression. See U.537.Drawn by Newton, photo 64.
688 (none) 1923,1110.109 (none) Terracotta relief. Upper part only, moulded. Grotesque female figure with elaborate headdress. Hands clasped below breasts. [drawing 1:1]
223 (none) (none) (none) Tablet of dark steatite. Broken across. Inscribed on both flat face and rounded back: on the face 8 1/2 lines of broken text remain, on the back 7 and a small bit. [Annotated] Dedication to Adad by Rim-Sin. [Annotated] Copied and transliterated. Placed in P.R. [Annotated] Sent to Baghdad.
805 (none) (none) (none) Diorite statue. Of Entemena. Found in burnt layer on Nabonidus pavement before the inner doorway of the Ziggurat gate in the SW temenos wall. Headless. Long inscription on rt. upper arm and across back of shoulders. Wears usual fleece skirt: hands clasped below breasts.
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.
17872 32-40-334 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Diorite. Damaged, and part of the surface gone. Design worked entirely with the drill: a standing figure with arms raised and two seated figures, and an object which may be a libation vase.
17877 32-40-323 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity & standing attendant. Poor cutting.
18003A 32-40-28 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded man with kilt advancing right. Head full face. (A) Complete. (B) Upper part to waist only. (C) Upper part to waist only.

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