Description (Media Properties): Ur Excavation photo negatives Provisional     
Title: British Museum Photo Negatives     
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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)
1007 (none) 1923,1110.101 (none) Terracotta relief, moulded. Male figure, bearded with horned cap, holding two objects against shoulders in Osirid fashion: flounced skirt. Full length: broken and mended, chip missing out of skirt. Whitish clay.
1010 (none) (none) B15182 Terracotta relief Moulded Upper part of male figure, bearded, wearing Semitic cloak fringed over l. shoulder, & low bonnet: carries a goat against chest. Whitish clay photo 118 Phil ht 009
1011 (none) (none) B15185 Terracotta relief. Moulded. Whitish clay. Male figure, bearded, with horned cap and vertically pleated skirt, showing left knee, cloak over shoulders: bull's ears. Left hand against body, right carries object like axe. Broken at knees.
1012 (none) 1923,1110.99 (none) Terracotta relief. Red clay. Moulded, in a rectangular frame (shrine?) a female figure wearing turreted headdress, heavy cloak with big rosettes on shoulders, flounced skirt. In each hand a bottle (?): 4 large rosettes in field above shoulders. Features pinched and not recognizable. Broken off at knees.
1014 (none) (none) B15189 Terracotta relief. Moulded. Seated female figure. Very elaborate headdress. Grotesque features, flounced skirt: hands on breasts: in field, crescent (above head) and dotted circles. Much damaged by salt flaking. Red clay.
1019 (none) (none) B15193 Terracotta relief. Moulded. A grotesque male mask, hollow behind, with holes through eyes and at edge for suspension. Very bad condition, Reddish clay, once covered with white slip.
1020 (none) (none) B15181 Terracotta relief. Moulded. Fragment of bearded male head wearing high horned cap from which descend on each side spiral curls containing a cross white the side locks of hair also end in spirals. [drawing of spirals]
107 (none) 1923,1110.98 (none) Clay relief. Moulded: seated man and woman, embracing: full flounced Sumerian skirts. [drawing 1:1]
1102 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine. Moulded. Lower part missing. Pinkish-drab clay. [drawing 1:1]
1104 (none) (none) B15690 Clay Figurine. Fragment of head, breasts, and left shoulder. moulded; drab clay. [drawing 1:1]
121 (none) (none) (none) Clay relief. Moulded: much weathered. [drawing 1:1] [Annotated] Photo 69
129 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine. Rudely moulded. [drawing 1:1]
1357 (none) (none) (none) Gate socket of Ur-Nammu, with inscription duplicate of the bricks from the Ziggurat. SAKI p.186a.
137 (none) (none) B14966 Torso of statue. White limestone. Eyes originally inlaid. Surface a great deal worn and the soft parts of the stone decayed, destroying much of the original character. [drawing]
15084 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Large round tablet with a few signs only.
15207 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
159 (none) 1923,1110.115 (none) Clay figurine of a sow. [drawing]
16860 (none) (none) (none) [Card Missing]
16880 (none) (none) (none) [Card Missing]
16895 (none) (none) (none) [Card Missing]
16897 (none) (none) (none) [Card Missing]
169 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Inscribed. [Annotated] Inscription of Ur-Engur recording his digging of a canal. Duplicates U. 202, U.526, U. 722, c.j.872 [Annotated] Placed in IN/No4
16900J (none) (none) (none) [Card missing]
17222B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 clay tablets. Fragments of religious (?) texts. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17625A 32-40-317 (none) (none) Inlay. Shell: [A-F] Six fragments of white shell cut in strips 38mm wide and decorated with 3 horizontal rows of 'mountain' design: the top and bottom rows are merely outlined with a double incised line which was filled in with black: the middle row is champleve and filled in with bright red paste of which a good deal is preserved. [drawing]
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