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)
7639 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Glazed. Yellowish grey background to body. Blue neck. Black spots on shoulder, black vertical lines going down belly to base. 2 concentric black circles on base.
46 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Greenish drab clay. Type XXXII=P.163
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.
6286 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Red. Type LXXIII TEO =RC.129
759 (none) (none) (none) Clay. Pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LVIII =RC.165 =P.199.
7902 (none) (none) (none) Comb. Ivory. Most of the teeth broken off short, only the end guard left to show their original length. On both sides of the flat upper part, an engraving of a bull set in a frame of lines and dotted circles. On one side the bull has his tail down. on the other above his back: otherwise, the 2 engravings are similar and show the bull with head lowered to strike. Very fine Phoenician work.
325 (none) (none) (none) Cone. Base of. Fragment of. Inscribed. Kudur-Mabug. Duplicate of 188 [presumably U.188]. All shaft gone. Placed in IN/No. 3
2830 (none) (none) (none) Copper arrowhead. Triangular pattern. [drawing 1:1]
8626 98-9-1 (none) (none) Copper bowl. Type 14.
2618 (none) 1927,1003.95 (none) Copper ingot. Well preserved but uninscribed. [drawing 1:2]
8674 (none) (none) (none) Copper pot. Almost straight-sided, but flared to rim, with channel spout much distorted. Type 15.
8460 (none) 1928,1009.335 (none) Copper staple Shaped like a crotchy [croquet] hoop with end of legs slightly turned up.
6996 (none) (none) (none) Cup. Miniature. Limestone? Gray. Shaped like a finger stall. [drawing]
8662 (none) 1928,1009.45 (none) Cylinder seal Pink limestone Decorative design, chevrons and running loops
6499 (none) (none) B16297 Cylinder seal Pink marble or diorite Piece of copper wire mounting inside Four animals. Sheep or goats - two of which are crossed Two scorpions. L 002 diam 0015 About BC 3100. E.
8713 (none) (none) B16862 Cylinder seal Shell, highly polished Geometric design. Triangles, short straight lines running parallel to one another and designs resembling a coiling serpent [drawing of serpent shape]
8420 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Lapis lazuli Geometric decoration [drawing]
8389 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal of translucent green calcite(?) Much discolored. Rampant animals.
8085 (none) 1928,1009.18 (none) Cylinder seal of yellowish white quartzite. Two registers: Above, a door(?), then a seated deity & a worshipper, then a worshipper pouring a libation into a tall vase with fronds rising from it, set in front of a seated deity. Below, 2 rams, one on each side of a tree, then a worshipper before a seated deity, then a man catching a rampant antelope. Very archaic style.
6984 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
6983 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 4 standing figures. Attributes: crescent moons. About BC 2000. B.
8169 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 balls facing each other: between them a mountain wherein trees(?). Behind them in the air an object [drawing: symbols on seal] with a bird on it. Very fine cutting.
8119 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers. Above: 2 seated deities in sheep skin skirts facing one another. One arm upraised. A standing figure between facing one of them. Beyond; the gate of a shrine? thus - [drawing]. Below: 3 seated deities wearing sheep skin skirts. 2 behind one another. A third opposite. Between them a palm? rising from a high bowl with a pedestal thus - [drawing]. One deity strikes it with a sword? the other holds a branch with his hand.
8367 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers: Above, seated figure with attendant behind, drinking through a tube: then figure making offerings to a seated figure behind where are 2 attendants. Below: gate of shrine, man opening it(?) and man carrying a sheep to it. Then a standing attendant and 2 seated figures facing each other and drinking through tubes. Fine archaic work.

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