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)
6683A 98-9-66 (none) (none) [A-B] 2 fibulae. Bronze. Neo-Babylonian. [drawing 1:1]
8626 98-9-1 (none) (none) Copper bowl. Type 14.
7316 47-29-438 (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7289-7381 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7839, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
3204 47-29-229 (none) (none) Large clay tablet. 9 columns. Time of Ibi-Sin. Entering wool in the temple and palace.
7111 47-29-159 (none) B16266 Terracotta plaque. Fragmentary. Bearded god? Seated on a bull left arm bent at elbow and holding an object right hand held against breast. E. [drawing 1:1]
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.
2685 33-35-252 (none) (none) Grotesque mask. Drab clay, with pierced eyes. [drawing 1:1]
17625A 32-40-317 (none) (none) Inlay. Shell: [A-F] Six fragments of white shell cut in strips 38mm wide and decorated with 3 horizontal rows of 'mountain' design: the top and bottom rows are merely outlined with a double incised line which was filled in with black: the middle row is champleve and filled in with bright red paste of which a good deal is preserved. [drawing]
2887 29-174-16 (none) (none) Pottery vase. Drab ware with pointed base and ribbed rim. Lip broken. Type CXLIII.
6768B (none) (none) B16272B 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]
6692 (none) (none) B16254 Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Fragmentary, lost below knees. Common type. Hands clasped over breast in attitude of prayer. E. [drawing 1:1]
809 (none) 1923,1110.107 (none) Terracotta relief. Moulded Woman suckling a child. In whitish drab clay. Poor work, proportions bad: surface weathered. [drawing 1:1]
17222B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 clay tablets. Fragments of religious (?) texts. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
6417 (none) 1927,0527.36 (none) Head of male. Limestone. Lost below neck, and back of head missing. White. Shaven and stone probably of priest, well known type rounded cheek, small but pronounced chin, wide nose, deep eye sockets and heavily incised eyebrows. Heavy ears. E. [drawing]
1012 (none) 1923,1110.99 (none) Terracotta relief. Red clay. Moulded, in a rectangular frame (shrine?) a female figure wearing turreted headdress, heavy cloak with big rosettes on shoulders, flounced skirt. In each hand a bottle (?): 4 large rosettes in field above shoulders. Features pinched and not recognizable. Broken off at knees.
1014 (none) (none) B15189 Terracotta relief. Moulded. Seated female figure. Very elaborate headdress. Grotesque features, flounced skirt: hands on breasts: in field, crescent (above head) and dotted circles. Much damaged by salt flaking. Red clay.
1019 (none) (none) B15193 Terracotta relief. Moulded. A grotesque male mask, hollow behind, with holes through eyes and at edge for suspension. Very bad condition, Reddish clay, once covered with white slip.
8460 (none) 1928,1009.335 (none) Copper staple Shaped like a crotchy [croquet] hoop with end of legs slightly turned up.
7609 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. Diorite. Black. modeled head reclining on back and at base webbed feet hitherto never represented on duck weights found at Ur. Type VI.
8041 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White steatite. Scene: Gilgamesh(?) and 4 rampant animals, in the centre 2 bulls heraldically crossed, flanking them 2 lions.
206 (none) (none) B14933 Mace-head, Alabaster half of Decorated with rope moulding in relief & inscribed: [Annotated] "To Sin, Rimush king of the world, when he had overthrown Elam and Barahse dedicated this from the Elamite booty" Duplicate of an inscription found at Nippur on a vase. See SAKI p. 162 (c) Vase C. [Annotated] Phil Photo 15 [Annotated] Duplicates - 206 [Crossed out] U.236
207 (none) (none) B14932 Mace-head Alabaster. Complete, except that top moulding is chipped away. Inscribed: [Annotated] Rimush king of Kish.
208 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. White marble. Complete, but top moulding and one side chipped, and part of inscription missing. [Annotated] Dedication of mace head to Nannar bu Ur-Engur for his life. (1) Nannar. (2) lugal-a-ui. (3) Ur-Engur. (4) mtah-kal-gu. (5) lugal Uri-ki-ma. (6) lugal Ki-en-gi ki-uri ge. (7) (uam ti) - la-ui-su. (8) (um) - na-du. [Annotated] Baghdad
94 (none) 1923,1110.47 (none) Frgs of alabaster vase. Decorated with winged ram in high relief. [drawing]
237 (none) (none) B14965 Alabaster Bull's head. Being the front part of a rectangular trough-shaped vase. The stone is in very bad condition and the head has been put together from fragments. The eyes were inlaid and the ears and horns attached. Fine spirited work.
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