Iconography: Vessel >> Bowl 1     
Technique: Manufacture >> Molded >> Modeled 1     
Description (Catalog Card): Incense bowl(?) Fragment. Clay. Shallow bowl: below, in relief, the fingers of a human hand, moulded and finished off with a tool. Compare the N.Syrian steatite examples.2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): Temenos wall, NW side, close to Grave C (NB 42)     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): 65mm by 55mm     
U Number: 678     
Museum: British Museum      
Season Number: 01: 1922-1923      
Object Type: Vessels/Containers >> Open Forms >> Bowls 1     
Description (Modern): Bowl fragment with fingers of a hand in relief     
Description (Modern): Fragment of pottery round bowl with modelled representation of a hand clasping it.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Pottery/Ceramic      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 116504     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1923,1110.93     
Measurement (Weight): 341     
Measurement (Height): 561     Height of fragment.
Measurement (Width): 671     
[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

Locations: 678 | 1923,1110.93 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media: 678 | 1923,1110.93 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods 1962 Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:23 Page:189 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:23 Page:189 (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:23 Page:190 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:23 Page:190 (none)
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