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| Description (Catalog Card): | Steatite vase. Fr of On the outside, a bull carved with the body in low relief, the head projecting in the round: behind, hind quarters of a second bull (there were presumably 4 on this vase). The body of the bull and the field of the vase are decorated with bone inlay, trefoils and dots, the moon, the sun and geometrical figures. Very fine work indeed. Underneath, on the base, remains of one side of a column of inscription.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | T.T.B 19 below rammed earth floor |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Steatite2 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | total 1. 010 ht. 004 original diam. c. 012 |
| U Number: | 239 |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Object Type: | Vessels/Containers >> Closed Forms >> Jars |
| Season Number: | 01: 1922-1923 |
| Object Type: | Vessels/Containers |
| Description (Modern): | Black steatite vessel fragment with one full bull relief and one partial lower half, extant complete bull's head turned outward as a handle, proportions imply that the vessel would have had four such bulls with heads at right angles. Other decorations include sun, moon, star, a floral design with round petals. Some bone inlay remains, much of the decoration was clearly meant for inlay. The base is very broad and flat and beveled to distinguish it from the body of the vessel. The vessel itself is squat and bellied. Part of an inscription remains on the extant section of base. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite |
| Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B14968 |
| Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B14968 |
| Modern Copies: | Plaster copy in British Museum: 116617; 1923,1110.218 |
| Measurement (Diameter): | 1203 |
| Measurement (Height): | 1003 |
| Measurement (Width): | 403 |
| Notes: | Inscribed. Reconstructed - made into a complete vessel4 |
| Notes: | E-nun-mah, under Kuri-Galzu floor from typed transcript |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
| [3] Barrett. 1976. Near East Section, Ur, Inscribed Objects |
| [4] Data collected by British Museum research team |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTB | TTB is shorthand for Trial Trench B, one of two trenches excavated in Woolley's first season at Ur in 1922. This one was about 4 meters wide by about 60 meters long and ended up almost entirely within the e-nun-mah, a building that went through many forms over the centuries. The trench was expanded to reveal the building and extra abbreviations were added to it to indicate portions, roughly in directional notation from the main trench. The trench cut the building close to the west corner and TTB.W became the abbreviation for this area beyond the trench itself. TTB.SS and TTB.ES covered the larger area to the south and east. The abbreviation ES was then used in later seasons to refer to the majority of the building and a small portion of the area to the south of it. The enunmah itself was a complicated structure that seems to have changed function from storeroom (originally called the ganunmah) to temple through its long history. Woolley began assigning room numbers within the abbreviation TTB, but these excavation room numbers do not correlate precisely with the published room numbers. | (none) | |
 | Room 13 | TTB.19 | (none) | (none) |
- 2 Locations
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | 1955 | Woolley, L. | (none) |
| Excavations at Ur of the Chaldees | Excavations at Ur of the Chaldees | 1923 | Woolley, C. L. | (none) |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0023 | GN0023 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:21 Page:238 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:21 Page:238 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| British Museum Photo Negatives | British Museum Photo Negatives | (none) | (none) | (none) |
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