Description (Catalog Card): Stone vase. Fr. of. Fine-grained black stone. On the outside, carved in low relief an animal strongly resembling a pig, but with a bushy tail stands on its hind legs (L), one front paw resting on a conventional mountain. The work is rather crude but vigorous. The vase is of unusual form for a stone vase, section more or less, thus [referencing drawing], the foot being made in a separate piece. [drawing]1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): T.T.B 19     
Material (Catalog Card): Stone2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): actual ht. 0225 width 007     
U Number: 211     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Vessels/Containers >> Closed Forms >> Jars      
Season Number: 01: 1922-1923      
Description (Modern): Dark steatite fragment. Bull on its hind legs, forefeet atop a mountain. Two bands in relief above bulls.     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite      
Museum Number (UPM B-number): B14967     
Measurement (X): 124     
Measurement (Y): 66     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
British Museum Photo Negatives British Museum Photo Negatives (none) (none) (none)
Excavations at Ur of the Chaldees Excavations at Ur of the Chaldees 1923 Woolley, C. L. (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs (none) (none) (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0065 GN0065 (none)
Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods 1955 Woolley, L. (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:21 Page:211 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:21 Page:211 (none)
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