Fragments

This category includes pieces of vessels such as sherds and shards. Sherds are used to denote ceramic bodies, shards for metal and glass.

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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)
12769A.1	31-17-320A	(none)	(none)	[A.1-.7] Fragments of colored pottery. Various pottery fragments - [B] a wheel, [C-D] 2 handles, [E] clay made of blade, [F] cone etc., and a [G] shell tubular bead 36mm long pierced longitudinally and also transversely at each end.
12769D	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A.1-.7] Fragments of colored pottery. Various pottery fragments - [B] a wheel, [C-D] 2 handles, [E] clay made of blade, [F] cone etc., and a [G] shell tubular bead 36mm long pierced longitudinally and also transversely at each end.
12774N.18	(none)	(none)	(none)	Objects. (A) Bead, long, clay imitation of bead cut from shell core. (B) Clay bugle bead. (C) Shell bugle bead. (D) Clay spindle whorl. (E) Copper needle (broken). (F) Clay nail. (G) Fragment of clay sickle. (H) Penannular ring of shell. [I not assigned in group] (J) [J.1-.11] Chips, flint and obsidian, including one flint piercer. (K) [K.1-.2] Fragments of clay animal figurines. (L) Animal tooth. (M) Miniature pot of reddish clay, broken. (N) Pottery fragments. [N.1-.4] 4 small bits black design on white, characteristic TO [Tel Obaid]; [N.5-.6] 2 pieces, black band on drab, coarse ware; [N.7-.10] 4 pieces red bands on drab [N.11] 1 piece plain red wash(?); [N.12-.13] 2 pieces, design in red on light ground; [N.14-.15] 2 pieces, design in red and black on light ground : rows of triangles and bands; [N.16-.18] 3 pieces with transverse bands of erased slip decoration, light red on deeper red body. (O) [O.1] Cylindrical vase of light drab clay and [O.2] fragment of a second similar. (P) Clay jar sealing (?) with scratched design. (Q) Clay jar sealing with impression of seal cylinder : subject, bulls and square shrines. (R) Clay cup, reddish ware, wheelmade, normal type, broken and mended. (S) Clay jar sealing, fragment, with design of rows of animals.
8914	(none)	(none)	B16748	(none)
(none)	30-12-287	(none)	(none)	(none)
(none)	30-12-337	(none)	(none)	(none)
257	(none)	1923,1110.15	(none)	Alabaster fragment of jar. Inscribed. Dedication by [crossed out] for (?) [annotated] Dungi. Part of same bowl as U.248. Joined to U.248 and 260. Copied and Transliterated Placed in IN/No. 1
253	(none)	1923,1110.20	(none)	Fragment of stone jar. Inscribed by Rimush of Agade. Placed in IN/No 1.
255	(none)	1923,1110.23	(none)	Alabaster fragment of jar. Inscribed.
258A	(none)	1923,1110.24	(none)	[A-B] Two alabaster jar fragments. Inscribed in a rude way with a primitive text. Placed in IN/No. 1.
258B	(none)	1923,1110.24	(none)	[A-B] Two alabaster jar fragments. Inscribed in a rude way with a primitive text. Placed in IN/No. 1.
254	(none)	1923,1110.27	(none)	Fragment of alabaster jar. Inscribed. Dedicated to dDungi by his daughter ME-dEnlil. Copied and Translated. Placed in IN/No.1
281	(none)	1923,1110.33	(none)	Fragment of stone vessel. Showing lip and five rows of depressions for inlay. Shaped [drawing of shape]. Inscribed ".....king of Ur."
1395	(none)	1924,0920.118	(none)	Fragment. (probably a vase) Reddish clay. Incised female figure holding up hands, with neck and head of ostrich on right. Rudely drawn.
1564	(none)	1924,0920.386	(none)	Pottery fragment. Drab clay. Glazed with pattern on yellow ground of purplish-blue with white squares. This fragment resembles glazed ware found at Asshur and in Cyprus. [drawing 1:1]
6657A	(none)	1927,0527.116	(none)	Copper? Handles? Arched. Rounded tops and nail head bases. E. [drawing 1:2]
6654A	(none)	1927,0527.306	(none)	Terracotta bowl Fragment Painted In centre lotus bush on either side a ram E. cf. water color reproduction.
6463	(none)	1927,0527.60	(none)	Semi-circular bar of white marble. U-shaped = ends flat, near each end a small hole bored through stone on the diameter of the semi-circule - broken in antiquity and riveted. Suggest that this is the loop ornament figured in early sculpture on door jambs or on lances set upright by the sides of doors: the ends might fit into holes in the wooden upright and the small holes would serve for attachment to same by means of copper wires. E. [drawing]
3345	(none)	1927,1003.142	(none)	Pottery fragment. Incised diamond pattern on outside: on inside, jeweller's design with seated god and small figure before it. [drawing 1:1]
3203A	(none)	1927,1003.259	(none)	Bone handle. Rest of object lost. [drawing 1:1]
(none)	(none)	1928,1009.372	(none)	(none)
8914A	(none)	1928,1009.389	(none)	[A] Handle? A handle of white steatite from which projects a copper rod: strung on the rod are 5 roundels alternately of white shell and black shale: on the rest of the copper rod traces of wood. With this were found [B-N] 13 shell objects like spindle whorls. Possibly the handle and thong-beads of an ornamental whip(?). [drawing 1:2] [drawing 1:1]
(none)	(none)	1928,1010.704	(none)	(none)
12769C	(none)	1928,1010.723	(none)	[A.1-.7] Fragments of colored pottery. Various pottery fragments - [B] a wheel, [C-D] 2 handles, [E] clay made of blade, [F] cone etc., and a [G] shell tubular bead 36mm long pierced longitudinally and also transversely at each end.
12769A.7	(none)	1928,1010.726	(none)	[A.1-.7] Fragments of colored pottery. Various pottery fragments - [B] a wheel, [C-D] 2 handles, [E] clay made of blade, [F] cone etc., and a [G] shell tubular bead 36mm long pierced longitudinally and also transversely at each end.