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)
3022 (none) (none) (none) Foundation tablet. Kurigalzu. Copper. Same text as Limestone tablet U.3019.
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.
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.
3102 (none) (none) (none) dGimil-Sin Door-socket. Of shrine erected by Lugal ma-gur-ri patesi of Ur. Same inscription: U.2673.
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.
2641 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine. Drab clay: female with flounced costume: seated: weapon about head. [drawing 1:1]
2974 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Primitive figure of nude votaress with tambourine. [drawing 1:1]
3119 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female, nude but for necklets, holding tambourine from fine mould. [drawing 1:1]
3152 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Female squatting and suckling child. Same as U.687.
3204 47-29-229 (none) (none) Large clay tablet. 9 columns. Time of Ibi-Sin. Entering wool in the temple and palace.
6034 (none) (none) B16645 Clay vase. Drab. Mouth painted black. Vertical markings about 20mm in length run down from the neck, also painted blac. Type CXXII =RC.185 =1L.91b
6135 (none) (none) (none) Bronze adze head. B. [drawing 1:4]
6154 (none) (none) B16401 Razor. Blade of copper. Handle of Wood. E.
6002 (none) (none) B16287 Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Below, figure Gilgamesh? prostrate above, offering to Ea, heraldic animals, etc. c. BC 2300. ? Brick. VII
6065 (none) (none) B16300 Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 3 grooves in middle divider scene, seated god and introduction of votary from 4 swans on lower half. About BC 2700. E.
6105 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Minor god introducing votary carrying gazelle as gift to major god who holds a wand in his left hand. Inscription: dNin-suh sukkal-zid-anna gispa-azag su-du. To Nin-Suh. the pure messenger of heaven carrying the bright scepter. B
6134 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink marble. Upper band, nine men, below animals and sacred tree. Bulls. Lion. Eagle. About BC 3000, B
6782 (none) (none) B16228 Head of Ningal? Alabaster. White. Eyes inlaid in lapis lazuli. E. [illegible, possibly resinous] cast in BM 118564.
6410 (none) (none) (none) Alabaster fragment. Figurine in low relief on one side of man holding an object against his chest in left hand. Next to him a pig beneath an ark. On the other side a peacock also beneath the ark. Borrom of ark represented by plain band 1mm in thickness rising upwards at the end in a curve. B. [drawing 1:2]
6767A (none) (none) (none) PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures of traces of white plaster remain.
6773 (none) (none) (none) PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. Traces of white plaster remain.
6774 (none) (none) B16273 PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. Traces of white plaster remain. Bearded male, hands clasped over breast.
6768A (none) (none) B16272A PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures of. Traces of white plaster remain. Human bodies with dog heads, left hand held across chest; right arm bent at elbow and held upright. CBS16271? [Confirmed: 16273] According to UE VIII pl. 34 there is a D, also PCBS 15271.
6769 (none) (none) B16274 PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figure of. Traces of white plaster remain. Jackal? Poor condition.
6771D (none) (none) B16275B PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. 4 snakes. Neo-Babylonian.

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