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)
7659 (none) (none) B17240 Bottle. Glazed. Originally blue. Bleached white. 2 Handles one on either side to receive straps to which the bottle must originally have been attached. On either side of bottle from neck to base a groove 15mm wide and projecting ridge on either side of the groove. Ridge widened at the base to allow the pot to stand upright. Broken and mended. Type 762=P.221 Not in Tab anal. [Tabular Analysis?]
6656 (none) (none) (none) Bowl with handle. Base silver. E.
8135 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Steatite. Green. 3 bull's hoofs incised on body. Part of rim broken and mended. Stone type LXVI.
36 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Alabaster, coarse, broken and mended but imperfect. Coarse-grained stone, stained yellow inside. Type 20 new. [drawing]
35 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Alabaster, veined. [drawing 1:2]
6763 (none) (none) B16221 Bowl. Oolite stone. Mottled. Type XLIV. E.
6893B (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Stone. Black. Burnt. Broken and fragmentary. Type. Ur.
7815 (none) 1928,1009.525 (none) Brick? Inscription in a writing not yet identified: and scribblings. cf. U.6900. HC.35.
6135 (none) (none) (none) Bronze adze head. B. [drawing 1:4]
6137 (none) 1927,0527.97 (none) Bronze adze head. E. [drawing 1:4]
481A (none) 1923,1110.138 (none) Bronze bowl. Plain. U.475 and U.476 are lying in this and fastened to it by corrosion.[drawing]
480 (none) (none) (none) Bronze bowl. Very thin metal, complete. [drawing] When found, U.473 and U.474 were inside it, lying on their sides and corroded onto it.
2870 (none) 1927,1003.111 (none) Bronze dagger. Thin metal : half piece pierced for fixing handle in the material good condition, hand broken but all complete [drawing 1:5]
2867 (none) (none) (none) Bronze dog figurine. Good condition except for tail blistered. [drawing 1:1]
2853 (none) (none) (none) Bronze dog. Seated. [drawing 1:1]
2866 (none) 1927,1003.97 (none) Bronze inlay. Fragment of thin metal plate, engraved: stream of water from figure of Ea or Gilgamesh [drawing 1:1]
2854 (none) (none) (none) Bronze statuette. Standing bearded figure with long hair and bottle in hand. [drawing 1:1]
482 (none) (none) B15290 Bronze [crossed out] Silver bowl. Much corroded and one side broken.[drawing]
8269 (none) (none) B16685 Bull pendant. Gold. Reclining bull. Body in profile - bearded head turned to the left originally there were 4 small gold beads tied to right side of body for attachment to a chain; only two of these now remain.
6926 (none) (none) B16350 Bull pendant. Mottled greenish marble. Flat base. E. [drawing 1:1]
2670 (none) (none) (none) Carved relief. Limestone, with figures of Ea and attendant gods. 3rd Dynasty period.
469 (none) 1923,1110.174 (none) Chain of beads. Long beads [drawing] thus, alternately of carnelian and lapis lazuli, uniform in size. 24 lapis and 23 carneliean, and 1 larger lapis, 1 large carnelian and 2 large agate beads: all had golden cap at each end of very thin gold (3 caps are missing) Found loose and strung together: but all were found close together and probably formed a single string. Photo no 45.
851 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type XLIII. = new P.21a
6721 (none) (none) (none) Clay bulla with seal impression. Neo-Babylonian cone seal printed 5 times. Represents, the Persian lance bearer standing up - About BC 450.
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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