16424 | 1931,1010.1
| Description (Catalog Card): | Statue. White limestone, with eyes inlaid with shell and lapis; traces of black paint on hair. Female figure standing, hands clasped in front of the body. Nose broken, one eye pupil restored. The hair is simply treated with curls across the forehead, then a broad bandeau; the back hair is brought up & over the bandeau in a small chignon and hangs in a heavy wave above the shoulders & at back of head. She wears a plain chiton & heavy cloak falling from the shoulders over the arms in straight lines to the feet. The feet are missing, the base of the stone being broken away; when found the statue was let into a round baase and bitumen had been plastered round it & smoothed down so as to make a spreading skirt at the expense of loss of design to the figure, which was this reduced from an original height ofc. 54mm to 37mm (the bitumen has been kept on by waxing). It had also been broken in half and mended with bitumen. The workmanship is not very good, and the decayed surface of the stone does it less than justice - but the type is a good classical one. The statue was obviously an antiquity given a place of honor in a temple which must date to circ. BC; so that the date of the statue might well be as early as the 3rd dynasty of UR.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | A.H. Found in situ on the base in the niche of the sancutary of the PaSag Chapel |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Limestone2 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Shell2 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Lapis lazuli2 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | H. 37mm (or 42mm to bottom of stone) |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
| [3] Data collected by British Museum research team. |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Room 4 | Sanctuary, Room 4, the sanctuary; the threshold was raised by a single course of bricks, the floor was brick-paved; in the NW wall, facing the entrance, was a niche of which the lower part was filled by a base of mud brick, plastered with mud and whitewashed, on which stood a limestone statue of the goddess, U.16424, Pls. 52a and 56a. The statue had been broken in antiquity and roughly mended with bitumen and the feet were missing, so that the lower part of the figure was embedded in the mud base to keep it in position. The sanctuary had been closed by a light door consisting of a plain wooden frame with panels of straight reed stems set vertically; it had of course decayed away completely, but the imprint of it left in the soil was astonishingly clear (PI. 51b). The hinge-pole, 0.095 m. diam., was against the inner corner of the NE jamb and rested on a hollowed brick; the flap of the door was 0.15 m. above pavement level, so as to clear the raised threshold; the width of the flap was 1.12 m., the bottom board of the frame was 0.22 m. wide, the sides of the frame apparently 0.04 m.; there were in the panel thirty three reed stems with an average diameter of 0.03 m. and the whole was preserved to a height of 1.05 m. | (none) |
| Room 1 | (none) | (none) |
- 2 Locations
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provisional Field Photo Album | Provisional Field Photo Album | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | 1976 | Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:65 Page:163 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:65 Page:163 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:65 Page:164 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:65 Page:164 | (none) |
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Excavation Context: Ur >> AH Site | AH >> Church Lane >> No. 1 Church Lane >> Room 4
Excavation Context: Ur >> AH Site | AH >> Church Lane >> No. 15 Church Lane >> Room 1
References
Provisional Field Photo Album, .