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)
2935 (none) 1927,1003.151 (none) Terracotta figurine. Female: primitive snowman technique. [drawing 1:2]
295 (none) 1923,1110.3 (none) Gate socket, Basalt. Inscription on smooth surface, with shoulder below. Records the building of A.A22AG.GA.NI GIG.KISAL[Above] by Bur-Sin I. Copied and transliterated.
2974 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Primitive figure of nude votaress with tambourine. [drawing 1:1]
2988 (none) 1927,1003.173 (none) Terracotta figurine. Votaress with clasped hands: adorned with beads. [drawing 1:1]
2989 (none) 1927,1003.155 (none) Terracotta figurine. Seated goddess with flounced dress, holding two trees in hands and having two birds at her feet. Sketch slightly more than 1:2 [drawing]
2992 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet (10 Col.). Date: "Year after that when Ibi-Sin "king of Ur, built the great walls of Nippur and Ur." Text comptability "98 servant (fem.) 63 children. Their oil "(ia) 1 gur, 177 qa - their fat (? ia) 3 gur, 60 qa "rations of the servant weavers (ush-bar) "of E-kar-zi-da, Month of Ezen-mah." H.C.
30 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of clay circular tablet. (school exercise type) [drawing]. [Annotated] Placed in IN/No 2
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.
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.
3022 (none) (none) (none) Foundation tablet. Kurigalzu. Copper. Same text as Limestone tablet U.3019.
303 (none) 1923,1110.145 (none) Ivory carving: A bowl, with knob handles, the rim decorated with zigzags on top and double half-circles on the side, D. 85mm, supported by 2 nude female figures: these have each an arm round the other and with the free hands support the bowl on their heads. Broken into many frgs and restored. Parts of the 2 free arms are missing, otherwise virtually complete.
3031 (none) 1927,1003.4 (none) Door-socket of Bur-Sin. Blue stone. Same inscription U.295 (Photo 24) To Nin-gal, his lady Bur-Sin mighty hero king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world has built her beloved house, Gi(g)-par azag for his life he has dedicated.
3034 47-29-140, 47-29-140 (none) (none) Clay tablet. Comptability gold and silver. Ibi-Sin (?) 3 2/3 shekel gold. 3 maneh 6 5/6 shekel 15 grain silver. Balance of revenue brought in.
304 (none) (none) (none) Limestone relief. Fragment of, In bad condition. Subject: a man kneeling rt and castrating a bull (?): the bull much damaged: to l. part of a fowl (?) on a large scale. Probably Chaldaean period.
305 (none) (none) B15326 Limestone relief. Fragment of Showing a wall against which the top of the scaling ladder, and above the feet of a man: part of a siege subject. Found with U. 304
310 (none) (none) (none) Agate bowl. Intact. Lathe-turned, the center lathe-hole filled up with a strong peg. Plain rib moulding on outside. Very beautiful stone.
3102 (none) (none) (none) dGimil-Sin Door-socket. Of shrine erected by Lugal ma-gur-ri patesi of Ur. Same inscription: U.2673.
311 (none) (none) B14991 Terracotta bust. of a god wearing the horned tiara and heavy curls on shoulders. Good bold modelling, moulded and finished by hand. Eemuriana [written in red pencil] [drawing 1:1]
3119 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female, nude but for necklets, holding tambourine from fine mould. [drawing 1:1]
3150 (none) 1927,1003.178 (none) Terracotta figurine. Primitive figure of nude harpist with harp under left arm. Back and hair at back carefully modeled. Sketch 1:2. Photo: 422 (from back). [drawing 1:2]
3152 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female squatting and suckling child. Same as U.687.
3158 (none) (none) (none) Votive stone of Utu-hegal (BC 2350). Fragment diorite. Text: (To Nin-)gal, (beloved wife of) Sin, (his lady), (for) the life, of Utu-hegal, king of Uruk, king of the (4 regions of the world) Ur ( dEngur?) vice [regent] of Ur, (to) the mother of E-gish(-shir)-gal in Ur... utu Hegal, king of the Vth uruk Dynasty before Ur dEngur. H.C.
3173 (none) 1927,1003.59 (none) Stele of dUtu-hegal. White limestone. Fragment. Has part of [crescent drawing] and inscription To d(Nannar?), king of ( ), his king, for the life of Utu-hegal the mighty hero, king of Uruk, king of the 4 regions of the world, (x, has) (devoted this?) H.C.
3204 47-29-229 (none) (none) Large clay tablet. 9 columns. Time of Ibi-Sin. Entering wool in the temple and palace.

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