Architectural Elements

Architectural Elements is a large category that encompases building material such as bricks, elements of buildings such as door/gate sockets and drain pipes, and decorations including wall cones of various sizes and styles. This larger category also includes models of columns, houses, shrines, and tombs. They are constructed from all materials and date to all periods.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
17654B	32-40-429, 32-40-429	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Wall cones. Two of Warad-Sin = complete. Cf. Ur inscription 131. (A) is intact = (B) is broken, and a large flake has come away from the stem, so that about 1/3 of the inscription is missing: this happened before the cone was set in the wall.
16582	31-43-248	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Fragment.
16003	31-43-247	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Ur-gigir. The building of E-ses-(e-)-gar(-ra), temple of ... HC.30/ I.1 UET 8/2 (Hand Copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
(none)	31-43-246	(none)	(none)	(none)
17117B	31-43-195	(none)	(none)	Wall-cones of white calcite. A. blunt point: a roughly incised line round the stem near the head. B. plain. C. Similar to (B), head broken.
17117A	31-43-194	(none)	(none)	Wall-cones of white calcite. A. blunt point: a roughly incised line round the stem near the head. B. plain. C. Similar to (B), head broken.
15063A	31-17-9, 31-17-09	(none)	(none)	Clay cones. (A) Nearly complete. Inscription on stem complete. Inscription on head partly broken.
15519	31-17-10	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Drab clay. Use unknown. [drawing]
(none)	31-16-760A	(none)	(none)	unknown
(none)	31-16-721	(none)	(none)	(none)
(none)	31-16-720	(none)	(none)	(none)
(none)	31-16-359	(none)	(none)	(none)
13108	31-16-358	(none)	(none)	Brick. Contains all the inscription (19? Lines), which is however badly defaced. Apparently completes the fragments RIU 120 and U.11662. (Sin-idinnam) (which are half-bricks).
12779E	31-16-350	(none)	(none)	[A-C] Bricks. 3. Plano-convex, burnt, measuring L. 0215 Width 010 ht. 008 [D-E] Also 2 measuring [reference to dimensions] and having rounded corners. L. 023 Width 0125 ht. 0075
12779D	31-16-349	(none)	(none)	[A-C] Bricks. 3. Plano-convex, burnt, measuring L. 0215 Width 010 ht. 008 [D-E] Also 2 measuring [reference to dimensions] and having rounded corners. L. 023 Width 0125 ht. 0075
14451C	31-16-347	(none)	(none)	[B-C] Brick. Jus. (gypsum burnt & slaked) rectangular, flat on top, made in a wooden mould set on a piece of matting, the impression of which remains on the underside of the brick. Though different in size it is identical in technique & fabric with those at Muraijib (14452-3)
(none)	31-16-163	(none)	(none)	unknown
14950A	31-16-162	(none)	(none)	Drain-pipes. Plain terracotta tubes found together forming a drain which ran out through the house-wall into the street. Not in catalog.
(none)	30-12-548	(none)	(none)	(none)
12503	30-12-252	(none)	(none)	Diorite. Door socket. Kurigalzu. In text: Nannar courtyard. Kassite (21). HC113.
1	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Cone. Inscribed.
2	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Base of. Inscribed. [Annotated] King's name broken off. Placed in IN/No. 2 Ur Texts I: R.I.135
4	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Upper part. Inscribed. [Annotated] Libit-Ishtar. Duplicate of SAKI 204/3 [Annotated] Duplicates - 74. Sumerian inscription of Libit-Ishtar recording of his building of E-gipar, the residence of the high priest in Ur. Inscr. duplicate of clay, Miscell. Inscr. no. 27. Ur TextsI: R.1.106. Placed in IN/No.5
19	(none)	1935,0113.628	(none)	Clay truncated cone. (broken). Inscribed on base and barrel. [Annotation] Building inscription of Warad-Sin SAKI-212c. Duplicates:U.334; U.753; U.700; U.878; U.751 [Annotation] Recording the king's building of E-temen-ni-gur-ru, for his life and that of his father Kudur-Mabug. (restores and completes a previously known insription) Placed in IN/No.3. Ur Texts I:R.I.131
48	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cylinder pipe. Pierced, possibly a small drain: or a lamp protector(?) [drawing 1:4(?)]