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)
917	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of small clay cone. Duplicate of Ur-Engur's inscription concerning the canal of Ur, U.169. Placed in IN/No. 4
918	(none)	(none)	(none)	Small clay cone, base and side slightly damaged. Inscription of Ur-Engur recording his digging of a canal called ID-UN. Placed in IN/No. 4.
919	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment from base of large clay cone. Beginnings of 18 lines of 1st column of Kudur-Mabug inscription, duplicate of U.188.
920	(none)	(none)	(none)	Portion of base of large clay cone. Inscription of Kudur-Mabug, duplicate of U.919. Portions of first 4 lines of 1st column and just 15 lines, 2nd column.
950	(none)	(none)	B15322, B15322	Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of KURIGALZU.
973	(none)	1935,0113.3	(none)	Fragment of mud-brick. With portion of Kudur-Mabug's brick inscription.
974	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of Mud-brick. With portion of Bur-Sin inscription.
975	(none)	1935,0113.4	(none)	Fragment of Mud-brick. With portion of Bur-Sin inscription.
983A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Small fragments of tablets from TTB 33. See U.982. Placed in Cigarette Tin.
983B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of base of large clay cone, showing ends of 12 lines of 1st column and whole of second column, 24 lines or parts of lines. Either Arad-Sin or Rim-Sin.
984B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of shaft of large cone. Parts of 21 lines. Unidentified.
984A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Complete tablet, top edge broken. 3 + 3 lines. Dated. Reign of Bur-Sin(?)
986	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of cone showing ends of 9 lines. Unidentified.
1116	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay cone. Inscribed. Ur-Engur's temenos wall text.
1150	(none)	1924,0920.359	(none)	Bronze fragment. Flat, twisted. Perhaps from a door. [drawing: not to scale]
1165	(none)	(none)	B15885	Black stone gate socket, with long but incomplete inscr. running round the side. Beginning and end lost, partly by the breaking off of one side of the stone, partly by flaking away the surface. 42 ll remain, recording the building of an archive-house (dub-la-mah), annexed to the court of justice, by Bur-Sin I, king of Ur. The text ends with blessings and curses upon those who should respect or destroy the king's monument. Photo 147 RI.71
1166	(none)	(none)	B15616	Portion from the shaft of a large clay cone, with inscription of Warad-Sin, king of Larsa, duplicate of U.641, etc. joined from 4 small fragments. P.
1191	(none)	1924,0920.22	(none)	Large black diorite gate-socket, dedicated in the cult-temple of GIMIL-SIN, king of Ur (3rd Dynasty), by a certain Lugal-magu-rri, patesi of Ur. The inscription of 16 lines is engraved on the upper surface partly surrounding the socket hole.
1192	(none)	(none)	(none)	Portion of a shaft of a clay cone, with second column (13 lines) of an inscription of Lipit-Ishtar, king of Isin. Duplicate of U.4, and SAKI, p.204. 3 and clay, Miscellaneous Inscription no. 27. P.
1197	(none)	1924,0920.389	(none)	5 fragments (3 joined) of the base of a large clay cone, with traces of inscription of Kudur-Mabug, king of Larsa. Duplicate of U.212, U.217, U.325, U.333, etc. Joined piece.
1200A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 Portions of large baked clay cone of Warad-Sin, king of Larsa, commemorating his building E-temen-ni-gur. (A) Consistent of the base, complete, and part of the shaft. (B) Is small piece from one side of top of shaft. Inscription duplicate of U.19 and U.700. R1 No 131
1206	(none)	(none)	B15612, B15612	Pot sherd, upon the outside of which promiscuous cuneiform signs have been inscribed in an archaic hand, presumably as practice. P.
1208	(none)	(none)	(none)	Massive brick diorite gate-socket, with 8 lines, inscription of Kurigalzu.
1262	(none)	1924,0920.250	(none)	Baked clay cone, the apex missing, but inscription intact. 14 lines in one column inscription of: Sin-balatsu-ikbi, governor of Ur, recording his restoration of E-temen-ni-gur, in honor of the god Sin. R1 No. 183
1351	(none)	1924,0920.393	(none)	Fragment from base of large inscribed clay cone. Beginning of inscription of Warad-Sin king of Larsa: duplicate of U.19, U.700, etc.