Description (Catalog Card): Terracotta relief. Fragment of head of bearded god wearing horned crown: behind, rough, with a hole for affixing it to a background. [drawing 1:1]2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): T.W, NE face near cross section     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): [L.70mm, W.51mm based on 1:1 drawing]     
U Number: 603     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Anthropomorphic      
Season Number: 01: 1922-1923      
Description (Modern): Relief plaque fragment, head of bearded god     
Description (Modern): Fragment of a large moulded relief figure; baked clay; god; three-quarters of the face only remaining, showing part of the horned crown with a large lower pair of horns; top part broken off; traces of the beginning of a beard on his right cheek; there is a large double band around the forehead in low relief and the eyes are also in low relief; large depression at the back of the head.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 116524     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1923,1110.113     
Measurement (Weight): 491     
Measurement (Height): 691     Broken
Measurement (Width): 511     Across base of horned crown
Measurement (Thickness): 291     From back to front of horned crown
Start Date: 2000BC1     
End Date: 1000BC1     
[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

Locations: 603 | 1923,1110.113 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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Media: 603 | 1923,1110.113 Export: JSON - XML - CSV Field Photographs

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Field Photographs Field Photographs GN0070 GN0070 (none)
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Excavation Context: Ur >> Temenos Wall | TW >> TWNE


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