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)
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.
222 (none) (none) (none) Tablet of Dark steatite. Complete. Inscription on face with text in 7 registers and on back with one line. [Annotated] Dedication of a temple by Dungi to Min-Sak. [Annotated] Copied and transliterated. Placed in P.R. [Annotated] Sent to Baghdad.
766 (none) 1923,1110.78 (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXVIII. Not P.
769 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXIX =P.88
848 (none) (none) (none) Blue glaze bottle. Glaze partly faded. Two small loop handles. Type LXXXV = P.211
660 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade. [below] Type LXIX but the foot is less distinct + the neck has a New Bab. look (cf. Type LVII). The shoulder has "Persian" wheelmarkings. [circled] P.88
661 (none) (none) (none) Pot of creamy drab clay. Complete. [below] [crossed out]Type LXXIII. 252 = new 122 P. [inserted] Plate 77.
694 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Creamy drab ware. Type LXXII =RC.170 call this a variant new type P.116
759 (none) (none) (none) Clay. Pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LVIII =RC.165 =P.199.
765 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXXV =new (P) 128
841A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Bronze bracelets pair of. Of round fluted bronze wire, the ends flattened out and superficially engraved. [drawing 1:1]
851 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type XLIII. = new P.21a
852 (none) (none) (none) Glazed bottle. Green glaze faded, over drab clay. Type LX =new P.184
853 (none) (none) (none) Pot. Red clay, wheelmade. Type LXXVIII. =new P.165
46 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Greenish drab clay. Type XXXII=P.163
63 (none) (none) (none) Glazed bottle. Glaze gone white and salt [? hard to read, possibly small?]. Type LXII [crossed out] 682=173P but the neck more sharply divided from the body and with more rim. [drawing 1:2]
613 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Drab clay, wheelmade, with four wheelmade lines incised around the shoulder. [crossed out] Type XII [inserted] wrong.
615 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Drab clay, wheelmade. Type XLVIII = P.97
616 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Greenish-yellow clay, wheelmade. [below] Type XLVIII = P.97
617 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Greenish-yellow clay. Wheelmade, with four wheel -turned lines (incised round the shoulder). [below] Photo 79. Type XII, but in the lower part more like TypeS XXXII and XLVIII.
670 (none) 1923,1110.87 (none) Clay pot. Drab clay with blue glaze. 3 rather faint wheel-turned lines round the middle of the pot. Two bored stump-handles. [below] Type LXVII. = [crossed out] RC.236. Photo 79 = P.217
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.
424 (none) (none) (none) Basalt hinge-socket of UR-ENGUR. The stone had been cut down and re-used between the Nebuchadnezzar and the Persian periods: its connection with the door was not certain.
806 (none) 1923,1110.2 (none) Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of NABONIDUS. The fragments of the iron shoe of the door-post are still fixed in the stone.
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.

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