611
| Iconography: | Animal/Zoomorphic >> Unknown - Quadruped 1 |
| Technique: | Manufacture >> Handmade >> Hand Modeled 2 |
| Technique: | Decoration >> Subtraction >> Incised |
| Description (Catalog Card): | Clay figurine of a bear. Forepart only. Reddish clay with creamy drab surface. [drawing]3 |
| Description (Archival): | Terracotta. hogs head in the round. broken.4 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | T.T.A |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Terracotta5 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | ht 007 |
| U Number: | 611 |
| Object Type: | Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Zoomorphic |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Season Number: | 01: 1922-1923 |
| Description (Modern): | Figurine fragment of an animal. It has a rounded snout, pellet eyes, triangular ears. Front legs intact. Back half of body missing. Incised lines down legs and back. Reddish brown clay with a white surface. U number on object. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta |
| Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B15198 |
| Measurement (X): | 74 |
| Measurement (Y): | 70 |
| Measurement (Z): | 52 |
| [1] Iconography tagged by Penn Museum research team. |
| [2] Technique tagged by Penn Museum research team. |
| [3] Woolley's description |
| [4] CBS Register |
| [5] Material as described by Woolley |
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTA | TTA is shorthand for Trial Trench A, one of two exploratory trenches excavated in Woolley's first season at Ur in 1922. This one was about 4 meters wide by about 40 meters long as revealed by an aerial photograph taken at the end of the 1922 season. The trench encountered a few scattered finds of jewelry and materials that led Woolley to suspect they were from a graveyard, but he felt his team of local diggers was not yet ready to excavate such sensitive contexts. Thus, he decided to concentrate on TTB for the first few seasons, according to his various publications. One of the primary reasons for concentrating on TTB initially, however, may have been that Woolley discovered no architecture in TTA but had struck the enunmah building in TTB. Woolley returned to TTA in season 5, when he expanded with new trial trenches and eventually opened up the entire area of the Royal Cemetery. No individual graves are reported in TTA and any that might have been encountered did not receive PG numbers. Those in the following trial trenches expanding TTA (TTE, TTF, TTG) did receive these numbers and gave their abbreviation (PG) to the entire Royal Cemetery area. | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Field Photographs | Field Photographs | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| British Museum Photo Negatives | British Museum Photo Negatives | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Leon Legrain Note Card | Leon Legrain Note Card | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:23 Page:92 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:23 Page:92 | (none) | |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | GN0070 | GN0070 | (none) |
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