787 | 1923,1110.48
| Technique: | Decoration >> Addition >> Glazed |
| Description (Catalog Card): | Human head. Limestone = fragment of = for inlay, or for a figure carved in another material. Hollow behind, the eyes were inlaid. [The following does not refer to an animal, but is likely an abbreviation for catalog. No further context.] Cat. [drawing 1:1]2 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | T.T.B 8, low down in platform filling near Nebuchanezzar drain |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Limestone3 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | [L.43mm, W.32mm based on 1:1 drawing] |
| U Number: | 787 |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Object Type: | Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Anthropomorphic |
| Season Number: | 01: 1922-1923 |
| Description (Modern): | Glazed composition human figure head; eyes deep cut for inlay; forehead and right side broken; mounted on polished black wooden base.1 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Glass and Related Material >> Faience |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 116461 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1923,1110.48 |
| Measurement (Length): | 421 |
| Measurement (Width): | 301 |
| Measurement (Depth): | 221 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 27.51 |
| [1] Data collected by British Museum research team 2015. |
| [2] Woolley's description |
| [3] Material as described by Woolley |
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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) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period | Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period | 1974 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:24 Page:37 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:24 Page:37 | (none) |
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Context
Ur >> Enunmah | TTB | ES >> TTB
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.